Triple

T16255091
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 E394607 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Refuse Act
The Refuse Act is a key provision of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 that prohibits the discharge of refuse into navigable waters of the United States without a permit, forming an early cornerstone of federal water pollution control.
E1202487 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: Refuse Act | Statement: [Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, alsoKnownAs, Refuse Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Refuse Act
Context triple: [Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, alsoKnownAs, Refuse Act]
  • A. Peel’s Act
    Peel’s Act is the landmark 1829 British law that created the modern professional Metropolitan Police force in London under the reforms of Sir Robert Peel.
  • B. Glass–Owen Act
    The Glass–Owen Act is the landmark 1913 U.S. law that created the Federal Reserve System as the nation’s central bank to stabilize the financial system and manage monetary policy.
  • C. Coercion Act 1881
    The Coercion Act 1881 was a controversial British law imposed in Ireland that allowed for detention without trial and other repressive measures to suppress agrarian unrest during the Land War.
  • D. Scott Act
    The Scott Act was an 1888 U.S. federal law that drastically tightened Chinese exclusion by prohibiting Chinese laborers who had left the United States from reentering, even if they previously held valid return certificates.
  • E. Quartering Act
    The Quartering Act was a controversial law passed by the British Parliament requiring American colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers, contributing significantly to rising colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
  • 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: Refuse Act
Triple: [Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, alsoKnownAs, Refuse Act]
Generated description
The Refuse Act is a key provision of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 that prohibits the discharge of refuse into navigable waters of the United States without a permit, forming an early cornerstone of federal water pollution control.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Refuse Act
Target entity description: The Refuse Act is a key provision of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 that prohibits the discharge of refuse into navigable waters of the United States without a permit, forming an early cornerstone of federal water pollution control.
  • A. Peel’s Act
    Peel’s Act is the landmark 1829 British law that created the modern professional Metropolitan Police force in London under the reforms of Sir Robert Peel.
  • B. Glass–Owen Act
    The Glass–Owen Act is the landmark 1913 U.S. law that created the Federal Reserve System as the nation’s central bank to stabilize the financial system and manage monetary policy.
  • C. Coercion Act 1881
    The Coercion Act 1881 was a controversial British law imposed in Ireland that allowed for detention without trial and other repressive measures to suppress agrarian unrest during the Land War.
  • D. Scott Act
    The Scott Act was an 1888 U.S. federal law that drastically tightened Chinese exclusion by prohibiting Chinese laborers who had left the United States from reentering, even if they previously held valid return certificates.
  • E. Quartering Act
    The Quartering Act was a controversial law passed by the British Parliament requiring American colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers, contributing significantly to rising colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
  • 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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e24599861881908b9235f005d80a96 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000ee9bc4c8190bb7e54ed2ad162b3 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0011995ff481908bbca9f9cfb41bf0 completed May 10, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0012669ff48190884367b92962a6d4 completed May 10, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.