Triple

T1961098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 96th United States Congress E42387 entity
Predicate passedAct P6890 FINISHED
Object Motor Carrier Act of 1980
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is a U.S. federal law that significantly deregulated the trucking industry, promoting increased competition and reducing federal control over motor carriers.
E219373 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: Motor Carrier Act of 1980 | Statement: [96th United States Congress, passedAct, Motor Carrier Act of 1980]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motor Carrier Act of 1980
Context triple: [96th United States Congress, passedAct, Motor Carrier Act of 1980]
  • A. Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999
    The Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 is a U.S. federal law enacted to enhance commercial motor vehicle safety and oversight, including by creating a dedicated federal agency to regulate the trucking and bus industries.
  • B. Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
    The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 is a landmark U.S. federal law that reoriented national transportation policy toward integrated, multimodal planning and investment, emphasizing flexibility, environmental considerations, and state and local decision-making.
  • C. Highway Safety Act of 1970
    The Highway Safety Act of 1970 is a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened national efforts to reduce traffic accidents and fatalities, including by establishing a centralized framework for vehicle and road safety regulation.
  • D. Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947
    The Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 is a U.S. federal law that clarified and limited employers’ liability for compensating workers’ preliminary and postliminary activities under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • E. Shipping Act of 1984
    The Shipping Act of 1984 is a U.S. federal law that modernized and deregulated the international ocean shipping industry by promoting competition and reducing government oversight of carrier agreements and practices.
  • 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: Motor Carrier Act of 1980
Triple: [96th United States Congress, passedAct, Motor Carrier Act of 1980]
Generated description
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is a U.S. federal law that significantly deregulated the trucking industry, promoting increased competition and reducing federal control over motor carriers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motor Carrier Act of 1980
Target entity description: The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is a U.S. federal law that significantly deregulated the trucking industry, promoting increased competition and reducing federal control over motor carriers.
  • A. Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999
    The Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 is a U.S. federal law enacted to enhance commercial motor vehicle safety and oversight, including by creating a dedicated federal agency to regulate the trucking and bus industries.
  • B. Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
    The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 is a landmark U.S. federal law that reoriented national transportation policy toward integrated, multimodal planning and investment, emphasizing flexibility, environmental considerations, and state and local decision-making.
  • C. Highway Safety Act of 1970
    The Highway Safety Act of 1970 is a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened national efforts to reduce traffic accidents and fatalities, including by establishing a centralized framework for vehicle and road safety regulation.
  • D. Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947
    The Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 is a U.S. federal law that clarified and limited employers’ liability for compensating workers’ preliminary and postliminary activities under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • E. Shipping Act of 1984
    The Shipping Act of 1984 is a U.S. federal law that modernized and deregulated the international ocean shipping industry by promoting competition and reducing government oversight of carrier agreements and practices.
  • 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_69a8870eea088190a38781990812a9bc completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb380bfc08190ae80f8e6570494b8 completed March 7, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbcea048819091d705095f0d3f68 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc8efb0c81908bce5a4a13359801 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd8115d481909716e11b943cbf61 completed March 8, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.