Triple

T1416249
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Defense Reserve Fleet E31923 entity
Predicate legalBasis P125 FINISHED
Object Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946
The Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 was a U.S. law that governed the post–World War II disposal and sale of surplus merchant vessels, shaping the structure and reserve capacity of the American merchant marine.
E161704 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 | Statement: [National Defense Reserve Fleet, legalBasis, Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946
Context triple: [National Defense Reserve Fleet, legalBasis, Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946]
  • A. Merchant Marine Act of 1936
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is a U.S. federal law that established policies and programs to develop and maintain a strong American merchant marine for commerce and national defense.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Merchant Marine Act of 1920
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, commonly known as the Jones Act, is a U.S. federal law that regulates maritime commerce by requiring goods transported between U.S. ports to be carried on U.S.-built, -owned, and -crewed vessels.
  • D. Merchant Shipping Act
    The Merchant Shipping Act is a key piece of United Kingdom legislation that regulates British merchant vessels, their registration, safety standards, and the rules under which they operate at sea.
  • E. Shipping Act of 1916
    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.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946
Triple: [National Defense Reserve Fleet, legalBasis, Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946]
Generated description
The Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 was a U.S. law that governed the post–World War II disposal and sale of surplus merchant vessels, shaping the structure and reserve capacity of the American merchant marine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946
Target entity description: The Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 was a U.S. law that governed the post–World War II disposal and sale of surplus merchant vessels, shaping the structure and reserve capacity of the American merchant marine.
  • A. Merchant Marine Act of 1936
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is a U.S. federal law that established policies and programs to develop and maintain a strong American merchant marine for commerce and national defense.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Merchant Marine Act of 1920
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, commonly known as the Jones Act, is a U.S. federal law that regulates maritime commerce by requiring goods transported between U.S. ports to be carried on U.S.-built, -owned, and -crewed vessels.
  • D. Merchant Shipping Act
    The Merchant Shipping Act is a key piece of United Kingdom legislation that regulates British merchant vessels, their registration, safety standards, and the rules under which they operate at sea.
  • E. Shipping Act of 1916
    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.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c402b1648190b87802d9beb2712e completed March 1, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace5833bb88190bcaf8cf46264ab26 completed March 8, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace61c6f348190bba7717b1bd7f24a completed March 8, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace6eeb99081908ac23a6c71faeae6 completed March 8, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.