Triple
T18743144
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded |
E458339
|
entity |
| Predicate | legalBasis |
P125
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924 |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924 | Statement: [Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, legalBasis, Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924 Context triple: [Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, legalBasis, Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924]
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A.
Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924
The Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was a state law enforcing racial segregation and prohibiting interracial marriage by rigidly defining racial categories, later invalidated as unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia.
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B.
Evans-Allen Act of 1977
The Evans-Allen Act of 1977 is a U.S. federal law that provides formula-based funding for agricultural research at historically Black land-grant universities, supporting their capacity to conduct scientific research in food, agriculture, and related fields.
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C.
Buck v. Bell opinion
The Buck v. Bell opinion is a 1927 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., that notoriously upheld the constitutionality of compulsory sterilization laws and became a symbol of the excesses of the American eugenics movement.
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D.
Boynton v. Virginia
Boynton v. Virginia was a 1960 U.S. Supreme Court decision that extended federal prohibitions against racial discrimination in interstate bus terminals, helping lay the legal groundwork for the Freedom Rides.
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E.
Jones Law (1929)
Jones Law (1929) was a U.S. federal statute that significantly increased penalties for violating Prohibition, including harsher fines and longer prison sentences for alcohol-related offenses.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924 Target entity description: The Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924 was a state law that authorized compulsory sterilization of individuals deemed "unfit," becoming a key model for American eugenics policies and the focus of the U.S. Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell.
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A.
Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924
The Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was a state law enforcing racial segregation and prohibiting interracial marriage by rigidly defining racial categories, later invalidated as unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia.
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B.
Evans-Allen Act of 1977
The Evans-Allen Act of 1977 is a U.S. federal law that provides formula-based funding for agricultural research at historically Black land-grant universities, supporting their capacity to conduct scientific research in food, agriculture, and related fields.
-
C.
Buck v. Bell opinion
The Buck v. Bell opinion is a 1927 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., that notoriously upheld the constitutionality of compulsory sterilization laws and became a symbol of the excesses of the American eugenics movement.
-
D.
Boynton v. Virginia
Boynton v. Virginia was a 1960 U.S. Supreme Court decision that extended federal prohibitions against racial discrimination in interstate bus terminals, helping lay the legal groundwork for the Freedom Rides.
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E.
Jones Law (1929)
Jones Law (1929) was a U.S. federal statute that significantly increased penalties for violating Prohibition, including harsher fines and longer prison sentences for alcohol-related offenses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8d394dc308190b6725073f5db324c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e57690a4d081908ab4c3890bb07e86 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 12:42 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:51 a.m.