Triple

T3809770
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benjamin Wade E93101 entity
Predicate participatedIn P149 FINISHED
Object American Civil War–era congressional debates
American Civil War–era congressional debates were intense legislative discussions in the U.S. Congress over issues such as secession, slavery, wartime powers, and Reconstruction that helped shape the nation’s political and constitutional trajectory during and after the Civil War.
E390458 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: American Civil War–era congressional debates | Statement: [Benjamin Wade, participatedIn, American Civil War–era congressional debates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Civil War–era congressional debates
Context triple: [Benjamin Wade, participatedIn, American Civil War–era congressional debates]
  • A. Lane Debates on Slavery
    Lane Debates on Slavery were a series of influential 1834 antislavery discussions by students at Lane Theological Seminary that helped galvanize the American abolitionist movement.
  • B. History of the Administration of President Lincoln
    History of the Administration of President Lincoln is a 19th-century historical work by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond that chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s presidency during the American Civil War.
  • C. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America
    History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America is a multi-volume 19th-century historical work by U.S. politician Henry Wilson that chronicles the political dominance of pro-slavery interests in the United States and the events leading to their defeat in the Civil War.
  • D. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot
    The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot is a multi-volume 19th-century compilation of primary-source records from state ratifying conventions that provides a foundational documentary history of the framing and adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
  • E. Lincoln–Douglas debates
    The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven 1858 Illinois Senate campaign debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas that focused on slavery and helped elevate Lincoln to national prominence.
  • 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: American Civil War–era congressional debates
Triple: [Benjamin Wade, participatedIn, American Civil War–era congressional debates]
Generated description
American Civil War–era congressional debates were intense legislative discussions in the U.S. Congress over issues such as secession, slavery, wartime powers, and Reconstruction that helped shape the nation’s political and constitutional trajectory during and after the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Civil War–era congressional debates
Target entity description: American Civil War–era congressional debates were intense legislative discussions in the U.S. Congress over issues such as secession, slavery, wartime powers, and Reconstruction that helped shape the nation’s political and constitutional trajectory during and after the Civil War.
  • A. Lane Debates on Slavery
    Lane Debates on Slavery were a series of influential 1834 antislavery discussions by students at Lane Theological Seminary that helped galvanize the American abolitionist movement.
  • B. History of the Administration of President Lincoln
    History of the Administration of President Lincoln is a 19th-century historical work by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond that chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s presidency during the American Civil War.
  • C. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America
    History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America is a multi-volume 19th-century historical work by U.S. politician Henry Wilson that chronicles the political dominance of pro-slavery interests in the United States and the events leading to their defeat in the Civil War.
  • D. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot
    The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot is a multi-volume 19th-century compilation of primary-source records from state ratifying conventions that provides a foundational documentary history of the framing and adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
  • E. Lincoln–Douglas debates
    The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven 1858 Illinois Senate campaign debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas that focused on slavery and helped elevate Lincoln to national prominence.
  • 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_69aee80e178081908cff71223bbf6c43 completed March 9, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb33db9c81908b462ee80aaaad34 completed March 14, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fc08d65081908953482b10fa5611 completed March 14, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fc7d8cf081909c4447818b5363c5 completed March 14, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.