Triple

T3179019
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Newton E66533 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
E334098 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: Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade | Statement: [John Newton, wrote, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
Context triple: [John Newton, wrote, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade]
  • A. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • B. An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves
    An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves is an 18th-century abolitionist tract arguing for the humane treatment and moral reform of enslaved Africans within the British Empire.
  • C. Dahomey and the Slave Trade
    "Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
  • D. The Coming Slavery
    "The Coming Slavery" is an essay by Herbert Spencer warning that expanding state control and social legislation would gradually erode individual liberty and lead to a form of modern servitude.
  • E. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American 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: Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
Triple: [John Newton, wrote, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade]
Generated description
Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
Target entity description: Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • A. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • B. An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves
    An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves is an 18th-century abolitionist tract arguing for the humane treatment and moral reform of enslaved Africans within the British Empire.
  • C. Dahomey and the Slave Trade
    "Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
  • D. The Coming Slavery
    "The Coming Slavery" is an essay by Herbert Spencer warning that expanding state control and social legislation would gradually erode individual liberty and lead to a form of modern servitude.
  • E. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American 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_69ad8586a34c8190944c63ec11a8de1a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada69db2088190baa1305892eb148a completed March 8, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b235f92a708190b9c627aa43703dfb completed March 12, 2026, 3:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2372a54a481908a4a954b8986aad7 completed March 12, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b23806a3c8819096069982b3612730 completed March 12, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.