Triple

T14741321
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Somerset v Stewart E346353 entity
Predicate hasPartyRole P13957 FINISHED
Object James Somerset was an enslaved African man
James Somerset was an enslaved African man whose 1772 legal case in England became a landmark decision challenging the legality of slavery in Britain.
E1116869 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: James Somerset was an enslaved African man | Statement: [Somerset v Stewart, hasPartyRole, James Somerset was an enslaved African man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Somerset was an enslaved African man
Context triple: [Somerset v Stewart, hasPartyRole, James Somerset was an enslaved African man]
  • A. Jim is held as a captive slave on the farm
    Jim is a central character in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," an enslaved man whose captivity and quest for freedom drive much of the novel's moral and emotional conflict.
  • B. Henry Turner
    Henry Turner is the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, who becomes a determined young sailor seeking to break his father's curse.
  • C. Henry Turner
    Henry Turner was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in a landmark 1925 civil rights case involving the defense of a Black family's home against a white mob in Detroit.
  • D. Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was a free African American man from New York who was kidnapped into slavery in 1841 and later authored the influential memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounting his ordeal.
  • E. Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano was an 18th-century African writer and former enslaved man whose autobiography became a seminal work in the British abolitionist movement.
  • 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: James Somerset was an enslaved African man
Triple: [Somerset v Stewart, hasPartyRole, James Somerset was an enslaved African man]
Generated description
James Somerset was an enslaved African man whose 1772 legal case in England became a landmark decision challenging the legality of slavery in Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Somerset was an enslaved African man
Target entity description: James Somerset was an enslaved African man whose 1772 legal case in England became a landmark decision challenging the legality of slavery in Britain.
  • A. Jim is held as a captive slave on the farm
    Jim is a central character in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," an enslaved man whose captivity and quest for freedom drive much of the novel's moral and emotional conflict.
  • B. Henry Turner
    Henry Turner is the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, who becomes a determined young sailor seeking to break his father's curse.
  • C. Henry Turner
    Henry Turner was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in a landmark 1925 civil rights case involving the defense of a Black family's home against a white mob in Detroit.
  • D. Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was a free African American man from New York who was kidnapped into slavery in 1841 and later authored the influential memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounting his ordeal.
  • E. Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano was an 18th-century African writer and former enslaved man whose autobiography became a seminal work in the British abolitionist movement.
  • 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_69d822e6f1c88190bc494d491a907114 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dec7345680819093e901233a064e48 completed April 14, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdfb93e94c8190beba605e26d4552c completed May 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdff025e00819089ad734f74b64f26 completed May 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdff8bdefc8190a4a66c742e1cae83 completed May 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 a.m.