Triple

T2446628
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 E53608 entity
Predicate notableCase P4 FINISHED
Object Shadrach Minkins case
The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
E269350 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: Shadrach Minkins case | Statement: [Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, notableCase, Shadrach Minkins case]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shadrach Minkins case
Context triple: [Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, notableCase, Shadrach Minkins case]
  • A. Anthony Burns case
    The Anthony Burns case was a highly publicized 1854 fugitive slave rendition in Boston that galvanized Northern abolitionist sentiment and intensified national tensions over slavery.
  • B. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • C. Prigg v. Pennsylvania
    Prigg v. Pennsylvania was an 1842 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal supremacy over state laws in enforcing the return of escaped enslaved people, significantly strengthening the legal force of the Fugitive Slave Clause.
  • D. Yick Wo v. Hopkins
    Yick Wo v. Hopkins is an 1886 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racially discriminatory enforcement of a facially neutral law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • E. Clarence Earl Gideon
    Clarence Earl Gideon was a Florida man whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Gideon v. Wainwright, established the constitutional right to legal counsel for criminal defendants who cannot afford an attorney.
  • 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: Shadrach Minkins case
Triple: [Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, notableCase, Shadrach Minkins case]
Generated description
The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shadrach Minkins case
Target entity description: The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • A. Anthony Burns case
    The Anthony Burns case was a highly publicized 1854 fugitive slave rendition in Boston that galvanized Northern abolitionist sentiment and intensified national tensions over slavery.
  • B. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • C. Prigg v. Pennsylvania
    Prigg v. Pennsylvania was an 1842 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal supremacy over state laws in enforcing the return of escaped enslaved people, significantly strengthening the legal force of the Fugitive Slave Clause.
  • D. Yick Wo v. Hopkins
    Yick Wo v. Hopkins is an 1886 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racially discriminatory enforcement of a facially neutral law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • E. Clarence Earl Gideon
    Clarence Earl Gideon was a Florida man whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Gideon v. Wainwright, established the constitutional right to legal counsel for criminal defendants who cannot afford an attorney.
  • 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_69ab495d227c8190b26ae6548eeb1019 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abca25a84c8190859bf51000beffec completed March 7, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af178d7c8c8190a37a65c35793074e completed March 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af1809ef0c81909a89986e7e2e20fc completed March 9, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af187a3af08190bf32f4f9f569fab3 completed March 9, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:43 p.m.