Triple

T4397707
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McKinley Tariff E99531 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act
The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act was a 1909 U.S. law that revised tariff rates and sparked major political controversy within the Republican Party during William Howard Taft’s presidency.
E443699 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: Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act | Statement: [McKinley Tariff, relatedTo, Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act
Context triple: [McKinley Tariff, relatedTo, Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act]
  • A. Underwood Tariff Act
    The Underwood Tariff Act was a 1913 U.S. law that significantly lowered tariff rates and introduced a federal income tax, marking a major progressive reform in national economic policy.
  • B. Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act
    The Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act was an 1894 U.S. law that reduced high protective tariffs and included a controversial federal income tax provision later struck down by the Supreme Court.
  • C. Fordney–McCumber Tariff
    The Fordney–McCumber Tariff was a 1922 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties to protect American industry and agriculture during the post–World War I era.
  • D. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
    The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was a 1930 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties, widely blamed for worsening international trade tensions and deepening the Great Depression.
  • E. Hepburn Act
    The Hepburn Act was a 1906 U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission’s power to regulate railroad rates and practices as part of Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Era reforms.
  • 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: Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act
Triple: [McKinley Tariff, relatedTo, Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act]
Generated description
The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act was a 1909 U.S. law that revised tariff rates and sparked major political controversy within the Republican Party during William Howard Taft’s presidency.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act
Target entity description: The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act was a 1909 U.S. law that revised tariff rates and sparked major political controversy within the Republican Party during William Howard Taft’s presidency.
  • A. Underwood Tariff Act
    The Underwood Tariff Act was a 1913 U.S. law that significantly lowered tariff rates and introduced a federal income tax, marking a major progressive reform in national economic policy.
  • B. Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act
    The Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act was an 1894 U.S. law that reduced high protective tariffs and included a controversial federal income tax provision later struck down by the Supreme Court.
  • C. Fordney–McCumber Tariff
    The Fordney–McCumber Tariff was a 1922 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties to protect American industry and agriculture during the post–World War I era.
  • D. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
    The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was a 1930 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties, widely blamed for worsening international trade tensions and deepening the Great Depression.
  • E. Hepburn Act
    The Hepburn Act was a 1906 U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission’s power to regulate railroad rates and practices as part of Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Era reforms.
  • 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_69b345506b408190b0e3dee616738a7d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352adce588190b9e6ed53458aa1e1 completed March 12, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6374a22c88190ba36ddb180634573 completed March 15, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b6384b32c08190969a892ccc135b2f completed March 15, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b63c3585b08190ab6837ffdb6db73e completed March 15, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:20 p.m.