Triple

T17021540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Andrew Gallagher E412957 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Imperialism of Free Trade
The Imperialism of Free Trade is a seminal 1953 essay by historians John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson that reinterprets 19th-century British imperialism as being driven as much by informal economic and political influence as by formal territorial conquest.
E1247151 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 Imperialism of Free Trade | Statement: [John Andrew Gallagher, notableWork, The Imperialism of Free Trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Imperialism of Free Trade
Context triple: [John Andrew Gallagher, notableWork, The Imperialism of Free Trade]
  • A. Letters on Commercial Policy
    "Letters on Commercial Policy" is an influential 19th-century economic treatise by Robert Torrens that analyzes and advocates principles of international trade and commercial policy.
  • B. A Theory of Imperialism
    A Theory of Imperialism is a political economy book that offers a Marxist analysis of contemporary global capitalism and the structural mechanisms of imperialism in the modern world.
  • C. Full Employment and Free Trade
    Full Employment and Free Trade is an influential economic treatise by Michael Polanyi that explores how to achieve full employment within a liberal market economy without resorting to central planning.
  • D. The Tariff in Our Times
    The Tariff in Our Times is a historical and economic study by muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell that critically examines the development and impact of U.S. tariff policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Discourses upon Trade
    Discourses upon Trade is a late 17th-century economic treatise by Dudley North that articulates early free-trade and laissez-faire principles, challenging prevailing mercantilist ideas.
  • 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 Imperialism of Free Trade
Triple: [John Andrew Gallagher, notableWork, The Imperialism of Free Trade]
Generated description
The Imperialism of Free Trade is a seminal 1953 essay by historians John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson that reinterprets 19th-century British imperialism as being driven as much by informal economic and political influence as by formal territorial conquest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Imperialism of Free Trade
Target entity description: The Imperialism of Free Trade is a seminal 1953 essay by historians John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson that reinterprets 19th-century British imperialism as being driven as much by informal economic and political influence as by formal territorial conquest.
  • A. Letters on Commercial Policy
    "Letters on Commercial Policy" is an influential 19th-century economic treatise by Robert Torrens that analyzes and advocates principles of international trade and commercial policy.
  • B. A Theory of Imperialism
    A Theory of Imperialism is a political economy book that offers a Marxist analysis of contemporary global capitalism and the structural mechanisms of imperialism in the modern world.
  • C. Full Employment and Free Trade
    Full Employment and Free Trade is an influential economic treatise by Michael Polanyi that explores how to achieve full employment within a liberal market economy without resorting to central planning.
  • D. The Tariff in Our Times
    The Tariff in Our Times is a historical and economic study by muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell that critically examines the development and impact of U.S. tariff policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Discourses upon Trade
    Discourses upon Trade is a late 17th-century economic treatise by Dudley North that articulates early free-trade and laissez-faire principles, challenging prevailing mercantilist ideas.
  • 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_69d886cc4170819093deddc7b8b4b6a7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d5d0dc848190a267f8542dfb86a6 completed April 18, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a011b4f9dfc819085639edb5cda1cca completed May 10, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a011cc1afc48190b83e3203407c1d7f completed May 11, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a011d67c82c8190b737406e8952eb2b completed May 11, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.