Triple

T240966
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clean Water Act E4930 entity
Predicate amends P1121 FINISHED
Object Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the United States’ first major federal law aimed at reducing water pollution and protecting the nation’s surface waters.
E31158 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: Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 | Statement: [Clean Water Act, amends, Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
Context triple: [Clean Water Act, amends, Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948]
  • A. Water Quality Act of 1965
    The Water Quality Act of 1965 was a U.S. federal law that strengthened national efforts to control water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waters.
  • B. Clean Water Act
    The Clean Water Act is a landmark U.S. environmental law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waters and sets water quality standards to protect human health and aquatic ecosystems.
  • C. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
    The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
  • D. National Environmental Policy Act
    The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
  • E. Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933
    The Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 was New Deal legislation that created the Civilian Conservation Corps to provide jobs through natural resource conservation and public works projects during the Great Depression.
  • 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: Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
Triple: [Clean Water Act, amends, Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948]
Generated description
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the United States’ first major federal law aimed at reducing water pollution and protecting the nation’s surface waters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
Target entity description: The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the United States’ first major federal law aimed at reducing water pollution and protecting the nation’s surface waters.
  • A. Water Quality Act of 1965
    The Water Quality Act of 1965 was a U.S. federal law that strengthened national efforts to control water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waters.
  • B. Clean Water Act
    The Clean Water Act is a landmark U.S. environmental law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waters and sets water quality standards to protect human health and aquatic ecosystems.
  • C. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
    The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
  • D. National Environmental Policy Act
    The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
  • E. Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933
    The Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 was New Deal legislation that created the Civilian Conservation Corps to provide jobs through natural resource conservation and public works projects during the Great Depression.
  • 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_69a25cece92481908b8125badc7c2b1e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a36960563881908ef098239cd87291 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a369d3b3448190bcf799ec9f4f8f76 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a36a3215508190be525ec8625e9a9f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.