Triple
T14792993
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | North Berwick witch trials |
E347702
|
entity |
| Predicate | legalBasis |
P125
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Scottish witchcraft act of 1563 |
E1123062
|
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: Scottish witchcraft act of 1563 | Statement: [North Berwick witch trials, legalBasis, Scottish witchcraft act of 1563]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scottish witchcraft act of 1563 Context triple: [North Berwick witch trials, legalBasis, Scottish witchcraft act of 1563]
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A.
Witchcraft Act 1563
chosen
The Witchcraft Act 1563 was an English law enacted under Queen Elizabeth I that criminalized various forms of witchcraft and sorcery, reflecting contemporary fears of magic and the supernatural.
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B.
Witchcraft Act 1604
The Witchcraft Act 1604 was an English law under King James I that strengthened penalties for witchcraft and reflected contemporary fears of sorcery and demonic practices.
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C.
Witchcraft Act 1735
The Witchcraft Act 1735 was a British law that effectively ended the prosecution of witchcraft as a crime by treating claims of magical powers as fraud rather than evidence of real sorcery.
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D.
North Berwick witch trials
The North Berwick witch trials were a series of late 16th-century Scottish prosecutions, closely associated with King James VI, in which dozens of people were accused of witchcraft and conspiracy, helping to ignite a broader wave of witch hunts in Scotland.
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E.
Samlesbury witch trial
The Samlesbury witch trial was a 1612 English witchcraft case in Lancashire notable for its sensational but ultimately discredited accusations, highlighting the role of religious and social tensions in early modern witch hunts.
- 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_69d822ea8b7c819097dfadf3d45545e6 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69decd5ec43c8190ad7a10a556519bb0 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 11:27 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe6b47389c8190ab0a46e3b4653a2a |
completed | May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.