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.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.