Triple

T14212240
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred Haskell Conrad E352259 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958)
“The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” is a landmark 1958 Journal of Political Economy article that used quantitative economic analysis to argue that American slavery was a profitable and economically viable institution on the eve of the Civil War.
E1085929 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: “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958) | Statement: [Alfred Haskell Conrad, notableWork, “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958)
Context triple: [Alfred Haskell Conrad, notableWork, “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958)]
  • A. Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States
    Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States is an influential 19th-century abolitionist work by Theodore Dwight Weld that exposes the brutality and moral corruption of American slavery and the domestic slave trade.
  • B. Capitalism and Slavery
    Capitalism and Slavery is a seminal historical study by Eric Williams that argues the rise and decline of slavery in the British Empire were fundamentally driven by economic forces tied to the development of capitalism.
  • C. "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States"
    "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States" is a landmark 1913 work of American historiography that argues the U.S. Constitution was shaped primarily by the economic interests of its framers rather than purely by political theory or democratic ideals.
  • D. The Literature of Political Economy
    The Literature of Political Economy is a 19th-century bibliographical and critical survey of economic writings compiled by Scottish economist John Ramsay McCulloch.
  • E. Essays in the History of Economics
    Essays in the History of Economics is a collection of scholarly essays by economist George Stigler that examines the development of economic thought and key figures in the discipline’s history.
  • 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: “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958)
Triple: [Alfred Haskell Conrad, notableWork, “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958)]
Generated description
“The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” is a landmark 1958 Journal of Political Economy article that used quantitative economic analysis to argue that American slavery was a profitable and economically viable institution on the eve of the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” (Journal of Political Economy, 1958)
Target entity description: “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South” is a landmark 1958 Journal of Political Economy article that used quantitative economic analysis to argue that American slavery was a profitable and economically viable institution on the eve of the Civil War.
  • A. Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States
    Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States is an influential 19th-century abolitionist work by Theodore Dwight Weld that exposes the brutality and moral corruption of American slavery and the domestic slave trade.
  • B. Capitalism and Slavery
    Capitalism and Slavery is a seminal historical study by Eric Williams that argues the rise and decline of slavery in the British Empire were fundamentally driven by economic forces tied to the development of capitalism.
  • C. "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States"
    "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States" is a landmark 1913 work of American historiography that argues the U.S. Constitution was shaped primarily by the economic interests of its framers rather than purely by political theory or democratic ideals.
  • D. The Literature of Political Economy
    The Literature of Political Economy is a 19th-century bibliographical and critical survey of economic writings compiled by Scottish economist John Ramsay McCulloch.
  • E. Essays in the History of Economics
    Essays in the History of Economics is a collection of scholarly essays by economist George Stigler that examines the development of economic thought and key figures in the discipline’s history.
  • 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_69d8278a06e481908b5d6af0a8afe737 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de620dba0c8190bb77a1df10e1d3a7 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd19574280819091bafd95a75983bf completed May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1a231cbc819083d38e25073892bf completed May 7, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1ada47788190afcf8078d76ef339 completed May 7, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:05 a.m.