Triple

T3035094
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject transcontinental telegraph E82988 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 E320217 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 | Statement: [transcontinental telegraph, relatedTo, Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860
Context triple: [transcontinental telegraph, relatedTo, Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860]
  • A. Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 chosen
    The Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 was a U.S. federal law that authorized and funded the construction of a telegraph line linking the eastern states with the Pacific Coast, helping to unify national communication before the Civil War.
  • B. Pacific Railway Act of 1864
    The Pacific Railway Act of 1864 was a U.S. federal law that expanded financial incentives and land grants to accelerate construction of the transcontinental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
  • C. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • D. Foraker Act
    The Foraker Act was a 1900 U.S. federal law that established civilian government in Puerto Rico following the Spanish–American War, defining the island’s political and economic relationship with the United States.
  • E. Act of June 28, 1864
    The Act of June 28, 1864 was a U.S. federal law passed during the Civil War that helped dismantle the legal framework of slavery by repealing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ad8b21a62881908ec5dd4fba4a187c completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9b2a40b48190bfa7cdbb0fbd87f8 completed March 8, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1eeeeff988190bb664c75d54d93d8 completed March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.