Triple

T3808823
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bleeding Kansas crisis E93078 entity
Predicate hasRelatedEvent P37 FINISHED
Object Caning of Charles Sumner
The Caning of Charles Sumner was a brutal 1856 attack by pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks on anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate, symbolizing the extreme sectional tensions that led to the American Civil War.
E391709 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: Caning of Charles Sumner | Statement: [Bleeding Kansas crisis, hasRelatedEvent, Caning of Charles Sumner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caning of Charles Sumner
Context triple: [Bleeding Kansas crisis, hasRelatedEvent, Caning of Charles Sumner]
  • A. Draft Riots
    The Draft Riots were violent civil disturbances in New York City in 1863, sparked by anger over the Union Army draft during the American Civil War and marked by deadly racial and class-based attacks.
  • B. Haymarket affair
    The Haymarket affair was an 1886 labor protest and bombing in Chicago that became a pivotal moment in the history of workers’ rights and the labor movement in the United States.
  • C. Colfax massacre
    The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
  • D. United States v. Cruikshank
    United States v. Cruikshank was an 1876 U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely limited federal enforcement of civil rights protections, especially against racially motivated violence in the Reconstruction-era South.
  • E. Bascom Affair
    The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
  • 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: Caning of Charles Sumner
Triple: [Bleeding Kansas crisis, hasRelatedEvent, Caning of Charles Sumner]
Generated description
The Caning of Charles Sumner was a brutal 1856 attack by pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks on anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate, symbolizing the extreme sectional tensions that led to the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caning of Charles Sumner
Target entity description: The Caning of Charles Sumner was a brutal 1856 attack by pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks on anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate, symbolizing the extreme sectional tensions that led to the American Civil War.
  • A. Draft Riots
    The Draft Riots were violent civil disturbances in New York City in 1863, sparked by anger over the Union Army draft during the American Civil War and marked by deadly racial and class-based attacks.
  • B. Haymarket affair
    The Haymarket affair was an 1886 labor protest and bombing in Chicago that became a pivotal moment in the history of workers’ rights and the labor movement in the United States.
  • C. Colfax massacre
    The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
  • D. United States v. Cruikshank
    United States v. Cruikshank was an 1876 U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely limited federal enforcement of civil rights protections, especially against racially motivated violence in the Reconstruction-era South.
  • E. Bascom Affair
    The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
  • 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_69aed96a60088190ab1df8390fffc935 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee80c7fc48190b5c2400918bba5c2 completed March 9, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb30a61c819096325d7f11d22f89 completed March 14, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fbd93b1481909f89d807ef870aa7 completed March 14, 2026, 6:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4ffc51bc08190aef4548a351b5604 completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.