Triple

T5728028
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Sea Company E126313 entity
Predicate heldMonopolyOn P2908 FINISHED
Object asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America) E462740 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: asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America) | Statement: [British South Sea Company, heldMonopolyOn, asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America)
Context triple: [British South Sea Company, heldMonopolyOn, asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America)]
  • A. Asiento de Negros chosen
    Asiento de Negros was a Spanish Crown-granted monopoly contract that allowed designated traders, notably the British South Sea Company, to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, becoming a major source of international tension in the 18th century.
  • B. Atlantic slave trade
    The Atlantic slave trade was a transoceanic system from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into chattel slavery, profoundly shaping the economic and social history of the Atlantic world.
  • C. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. Slave Trade Clause
    The Slave Trade Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that temporarily protected the transatlantic importation of enslaved people by preventing Congress from banning it before 1808.
  • E. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • 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_69c0082f723881908ce8bb13a0c0f8b7 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0250c0ca081909340abae204cc226 completed March 22, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a8a1d08819080f071eb22db54d3 completed March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:47 p.m.