Triple

T373176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Article IV of the United States Constitution E8313 entity
Predicate containsClause P1393 FINISHED
Object Fugitive Slave Clause
The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
E47302 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: Fugitive Slave Clause | Statement: [Article IV of the United States Constitution, containsClause, Fugitive Slave Clause]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fugitive Slave Clause
Context triple: [Article IV of the United States Constitution, containsClause, Fugitive Slave Clause]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Thirteenth Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment is a landmark provision to the United States Constitution that formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the country, except as punishment for a crime.
  • D. Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave 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: Fugitive Slave Clause
Triple: [Article IV of the United States Constitution, containsClause, Fugitive Slave Clause]
Generated description
The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fugitive Slave Clause
Target entity description: The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Thirteenth Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment is a landmark provision to the United States Constitution that formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the country, except as punishment for a crime.
  • D. Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave 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_69a2e7f2ec648190b42bc7db424f8109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec018d508190b5687a9ba90b3092 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3f0a9608481908bee4d83768e6497 completed March 1, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3f131d1f88190ac131204c5402687 completed March 1, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3f202f308819098affb41d502d5fb completed March 1, 2026, 8 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.