Triple

T1538741
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Commerce Compromise E32814 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Slave Trade Clause
The Slave Trade Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that temporarily protected the transatlantic importation of enslaved people by preventing Congress from banning it before 1808.
E176632 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: Slave Trade Clause | Statement: [Commerce Compromise, hasPart, Slave Trade Clause]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Slave Trade Clause
Context triple: [Commerce Compromise, hasPart, Slave Trade Clause]
  • A. Fugitive Slave Clause
    The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
  • B. United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807
    The United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 was a federal law that banned the transatlantic importation of enslaved people into the United States, marking a major legal step against the Atlantic slave trade.
  • C. Slave Trade Act 1807
    The Slave Trade Act 1807 was a landmark British law that made the transatlantic slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, marking a major victory for the abolitionist movement.
  • D. Slave Trade Act 1824
    The Slave Trade Act 1824 was a British law that strengthened and expanded earlier legislation against the transatlantic slave trade by increasing penalties and enforcement measures to suppress it more effectively.
  • E. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a controversial U.S. federal law that strengthened requirements for the capture and return of escaped enslaved people and penalized officials and citizens who aided their escape, intensifying sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • 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: Slave Trade Clause
Triple: [Commerce Compromise, hasPart, Slave Trade Clause]
Generated description
The Slave Trade Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that temporarily protected the transatlantic importation of enslaved people by preventing Congress from banning it before 1808.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Slave Trade Clause
Target entity description: The Slave Trade Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that temporarily protected the transatlantic importation of enslaved people by preventing Congress from banning it before 1808.
  • A. Fugitive Slave Clause
    The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
  • B. United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807
    The United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 was a federal law that banned the transatlantic importation of enslaved people into the United States, marking a major legal step against the Atlantic slave trade.
  • C. Slave Trade Act 1807
    The Slave Trade Act 1807 was a landmark British law that made the transatlantic slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, marking a major victory for the abolitionist movement.
  • D. Slave Trade Act 1824
    The Slave Trade Act 1824 was a British law that strengthened and expanded earlier legislation against the transatlantic slave trade by increasing penalties and enforcement measures to suppress it more effectively.
  • E. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a controversial U.S. federal law that strengthened requirements for the capture and return of escaped enslaved people and penalized officials and citizens who aided their escape, intensifying sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • 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_69a885ed29088190a3c2d5a3d100c16e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9082c186c81909c5c4c1a8a47c603 completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad30997d408190916f16d31bcc35b4 completed March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad31167b748190bbb73d7369570ada completed March 8, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad31b5ce308190ba34123a4c8b8188 completed March 8, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.