Triple
T1380292
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shipping Act of 1916 |
E29321
|
entity |
| Predicate | empowered |
P4700
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United States Shipping Board to approve or disapprove carrier agreements |
E29321
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: United States Shipping Board to approve or disapprove carrier agreements | Statement: [Shipping Act of 1916, empowered, United States Shipping Board to approve or disapprove carrier agreements]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Shipping Board to approve or disapprove carrier agreements Context triple: [Shipping Act of 1916, empowered, United States Shipping Board to approve or disapprove carrier agreements]
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A.
Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement
The Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement is a U.S. government program that secures access to commercial shipping and intermodal transportation resources from private carriers to support national defense and emergency sealift requirements.
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B.
United States Maritime Commission
The United States Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in the 1930s to develop, regulate, and expand the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial and auxiliary ships.
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C.
Shipping Act of 1916
chosen
The Shipping Act of 1916 was a foundational U.S. maritime law that established federal regulation of ocean shipping practices and created the United States Shipping Board to oversee fair competition and rates in international trade.
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D.
United States merchant marine
The United States merchant marine is the civilian fleet of U.S.-registered commercial ships and their crews that transport goods and services in peacetime and serve as a naval auxiliary in times of war or national emergency.
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E.
Merchant Marine Act of 1970
The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is a U.S. federal law that updated and expanded national maritime policy, including shipbuilding and fleet modernization programs, to strengthen the American merchant marine.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69a498d883a48190bfdca525296ef7ee |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c319f46481909ba8a69a19b865e5 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acd48a48fc81908b156c273cb5dfc0 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.