Triple

T238849
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Atlantic slave trade E4882 entity
Predicate legalAbolition P9467 FINISHED
Object 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.
E31458 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: United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807 | Statement: [Atlantic slave trade, legalAbolition, United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807
Context triple: [Atlantic slave trade, legalAbolition, United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Slavery Abolition Act 1833
    The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was a landmark British law that ended slavery throughout most of the British Empire, leading to the emancipation of hundreds of thousands of enslaved people, particularly in the Caribbean.
  • C. Slavery Abolition Act 1838
    The Slavery Abolition Act 1838 was British legislation that finalized and accelerated the end of slavery in the British Empire by modifying and effectively curtailing the apprenticeship system established after the 1833 abolition act.
  • D. Slavery Abolition Act 1843
    The Slavery Abolition Act 1843 was a follow-up piece of British legislation that refined and extended the legal framework for ending slavery in the British Empire after the initial 1833 abolition act.
  • E. Peonage Act of 1867
    The Peonage Act of 1867 is a U.S. federal law that criminalized debt peonage and other forms of forced labor, reinforcing the abolition of slavery established by the Thirteenth Amendment.
  • 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: United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807
Triple: [Atlantic slave trade, legalAbolition, United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1807
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Slavery Abolition Act 1833
    The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was a landmark British law that ended slavery throughout most of the British Empire, leading to the emancipation of hundreds of thousands of enslaved people, particularly in the Caribbean.
  • C. Slavery Abolition Act 1838
    The Slavery Abolition Act 1838 was British legislation that finalized and accelerated the end of slavery in the British Empire by modifying and effectively curtailing the apprenticeship system established after the 1833 abolition act.
  • D. Slavery Abolition Act 1843
    The Slavery Abolition Act 1843 was a follow-up piece of British legislation that refined and extended the legal framework for ending slavery in the British Empire after the initial 1833 abolition act.
  • E. Peonage Act of 1867
    The Peonage Act of 1867 is a U.S. federal law that criminalized debt peonage and other forms of forced labor, reinforcing the abolition of slavery established by the Thirteenth Amendment.
  • 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_69a257c3d0708190b0871c4269d273e6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a260c42060819089eb772202e504f5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3695ec8cc8190a070462cd0022f6a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a36a08408c8190af33b6d33000b78e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a36a57f5048190ab4e96090a310977 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.