Triple

T3868819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kentucky Lock E91926 entity
Predicate administeredUnder P86 FINISHED
Object Rivers and Harbors Act (United States)
The Rivers and Harbors Act (United States) is a foundational federal law that regulates the construction, alteration, and obstruction of navigable waters to protect navigation and, in later amendments, aspects of water quality and environmental resources.
E394607 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: Rivers and Harbors Act (United States) | Statement: [Kentucky Lock, administeredUnder, Rivers and Harbors Act (United States)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rivers and Harbors Act (United States)
Context triple: [Kentucky Lock, administeredUnder, Rivers and Harbors Act (United States)]
  • A. Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937
    The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937 is a U.S. federal law that, among other water infrastructure measures, authorized major reclamation and water management projects in California’s Central Valley.
  • B. Federal Water Power Act of 1920
    The Federal Water Power Act of 1920 was a U.S. law that established a comprehensive federal licensing and regulatory framework for hydroelectric power development on navigable waters and public lands.
  • C. Flood Control Act of 1944
    The Flood Control Act of 1944 is a landmark U.S. law that authorized major multipurpose water projects, shaping the modern federal system for flood control, navigation, irrigation, and hydroelectric power development.
  • D. Merchant Marine Act of 1920
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, commonly known as the Jones Act, is a U.S. federal law that regulates maritime commerce by requiring goods transported between U.S. ports to be carried on U.S.-built, -owned, and -crewed vessels.
  • E. Bonneville Project Act of 1937
    The Bonneville Project Act of 1937 is a U.S. federal law that created the Bonneville Power Administration and established the framework for marketing and transmitting hydroelectric power from the Columbia River dams in the Pacific Northwest.
  • 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: Rivers and Harbors Act (United States)
Triple: [Kentucky Lock, administeredUnder, Rivers and Harbors Act (United States)]
Generated description
The Rivers and Harbors Act (United States) is a foundational federal law that regulates the construction, alteration, and obstruction of navigable waters to protect navigation and, in later amendments, aspects of water quality and environmental resources.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rivers and Harbors Act (United States)
Target entity description: The Rivers and Harbors Act (United States) is a foundational federal law that regulates the construction, alteration, and obstruction of navigable waters to protect navigation and, in later amendments, aspects of water quality and environmental resources.
  • A. Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937
    The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937 is a U.S. federal law that, among other water infrastructure measures, authorized major reclamation and water management projects in California’s Central Valley.
  • B. Federal Water Power Act of 1920
    The Federal Water Power Act of 1920 was a U.S. law that established a comprehensive federal licensing and regulatory framework for hydroelectric power development on navigable waters and public lands.
  • C. Flood Control Act of 1944
    The Flood Control Act of 1944 is a landmark U.S. law that authorized major multipurpose water projects, shaping the modern federal system for flood control, navigation, irrigation, and hydroelectric power development.
  • D. Merchant Marine Act of 1920
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, commonly known as the Jones Act, is a U.S. federal law that regulates maritime commerce by requiring goods transported between U.S. ports to be carried on U.S.-built, -owned, and -crewed vessels.
  • E. Bonneville Project Act of 1937
    The Bonneville Project Act of 1937 is a U.S. federal law that created the Bonneville Power Administration and established the framework for marketing and transmitting hydroelectric power from the Columbia River dams in the Pacific Northwest.
  • 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_69aed9645f348190a9868e7cef56ab7e completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec3dfb3c8190a0a07070f0d76bf6 completed March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b512440b8c8190ae2048bfcdd565ec completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512f4041081908eb32ae059681afa completed March 14, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5137200a08190bd2a78398e03803e completed March 14, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.