Triple

T2362376
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fugitive Slave Clause E47302 entity
Predicate implementedBy P172 FINISHED
Object Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a U.S. federal law that provided legal mechanisms for slaveholders to recover escaped enslaved people from free states, reinforcing the institution of slavery across state lines.
E261347 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: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 | Statement: [Fugitive Slave Clause, implementedBy, Fugitive Slave Act of 1793]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Context triple: [Fugitive Slave Clause, implementedBy, Fugitive Slave Act of 1793]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. First Enforcement Act
    The First Enforcement Act was a Reconstruction-era U.S. federal law designed to protect African Americans’ voting rights and curb racial violence and intimidation in the post–Civil War South.
  • 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: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Triple: [Fugitive Slave Clause, implementedBy, Fugitive Slave Act of 1793]
Generated description
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a U.S. federal law that provided legal mechanisms for slaveholders to recover escaped enslaved people from free states, reinforcing the institution of slavery across state lines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Target entity description: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a U.S. federal law that provided legal mechanisms for slaveholders to recover escaped enslaved people from free states, reinforcing the institution of slavery across state lines.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. First Enforcement Act
    The First Enforcement Act was a Reconstruction-era U.S. federal law designed to protect African Americans’ voting rights and curb racial violence and intimidation in the post–Civil War South.
  • 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_69a88a1a4a6081908645b0f2914521ab completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc74501388190adce9b3e51a03ded completed March 7, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea8938d5481908ed11efcc8840ca4 completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeabfeddd4819080205fbebac1a51d completed March 9, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeacc8445481908a3ae8bd62493413 completed March 9, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:55 p.m.