Triple

T4561709
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Transportation Act of 1920 E121805 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Esch–Cummins Act
The Esch–Cummins Act was a 1920 U.S. federal law that returned railroads from government control to private operation while strengthening federal regulation and promoting industry consolidation.
E452582 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: Esch–Cummins Act | Statement: [Transportation Act of 1920, alsoKnownAs, Esch–Cummins Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esch–Cummins Act
Context triple: [Transportation Act of 1920, alsoKnownAs, Esch–Cummins Act]
  • A. Wheeler–Howard Act
    The Wheeler–Howard Act, formally known as the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, is a U.S. federal law that ended the allotment of tribal lands and aimed to restore tribal self-government and communal landholding for Native American tribes.
  • B. Wheeler-Rayburn Act
    The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
  • C. Humphrey–Hawkins Act
    The Humphrey–Hawkins Act is a 1978 U.S. federal law that set explicit national goals for full employment, price stability, and economic growth, and established regular reporting requirements for the Federal Reserve and the President on economic policy.
  • D. Aldrich–Vreeland Act
    The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was a 1908 U.S. law that created emergency currency provisions and laid groundwork for banking reform in response to the Panic of 1907.
  • E. Wagner–Steagall Act
    The Wagner–Steagall Act was a landmark 1937 U.S. federal law that created a permanent public housing program aimed at providing decent, affordable housing for low-income families.
  • 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: Esch–Cummins Act
Triple: [Transportation Act of 1920, alsoKnownAs, Esch–Cummins Act]
Generated description
The Esch–Cummins Act was a 1920 U.S. federal law that returned railroads from government control to private operation while strengthening federal regulation and promoting industry consolidation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esch–Cummins Act
Target entity description: The Esch–Cummins Act was a 1920 U.S. federal law that returned railroads from government control to private operation while strengthening federal regulation and promoting industry consolidation.
  • A. Wheeler–Howard Act
    The Wheeler–Howard Act, formally known as the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, is a U.S. federal law that ended the allotment of tribal lands and aimed to restore tribal self-government and communal landholding for Native American tribes.
  • B. Wheeler-Rayburn Act
    The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
  • C. Humphrey–Hawkins Act
    The Humphrey–Hawkins Act is a 1978 U.S. federal law that set explicit national goals for full employment, price stability, and economic growth, and established regular reporting requirements for the Federal Reserve and the President on economic policy.
  • D. Aldrich–Vreeland Act
    The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was a 1908 U.S. law that created emergency currency provisions and laid groundwork for banking reform in response to the Panic of 1907.
  • E. Wagner–Steagall Act
    The Wagner–Steagall Act was a landmark 1937 U.S. federal law that created a permanent public housing program aimed at providing decent, affordable housing for low-income families.
  • 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_69bd463f156881908a99aca69c5721ac completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd582f21648190b49284eb61b618c9 completed March 20, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc59b2514819091f3845307cb1c8b completed March 20, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc66a981c8190a472722af45ce023 completed March 20, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdc6de076081909d2ad276cc7a1141 completed March 20, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.