Triple

T4408314
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stalwart faction of the Republican Party E94787 entity
Predicate opposedReform P437 FINISHED
Object Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act E94785 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act | Statement: [Stalwart faction of the Republican Party, opposedReform, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Context triple: [Stalwart faction of the Republican Party, opposedReform, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]
  • A. Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act chosen
    The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was an 1883 U.S. federal law that established a merit-based system for government employment, reducing patronage and the spoils system in the civil service.
  • B. Elkins Act
    The Elkins Act was a 1903 U.S. federal law that strengthened regulation of railroads by prohibiting discriminatory rebates and reinforcing the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
  • C. Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
    The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 is a landmark U.S. federal law that overhauled the federal personnel system by restructuring agencies, strengthening merit principles, and introducing new mechanisms for performance management and employee protections.
  • D. Tenure of Office Act
    The Tenure of Office Act was an 1867 U.S. federal law that restricted the president’s power to remove certain officeholders without Senate approval, and its alleged violation by President Andrew Johnson was central to his impeachment.
  • E. Hatch Act of 1939
    The Hatch Act of 1939 is a U.S. federal law that restricts the political activities of government employees to protect the integrity and nonpartisanship of the civil service.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69b34539638c8190abfea3eb29425210 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3548cb92881908a3f98466da8e0a2 completed March 13, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6136149ac8190a7cfd866bacc809f completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:28 p.m.