Triple

T5782226
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Homestead Act of 1862 E128185 entity
Predicate relatedLegislation P3136 FINISHED
Object Southern Homestead Act of 1866
The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a Reconstruction-era U.S. law that aimed to provide land in the South to formerly enslaved people and loyal white settlers, though in practice it largely failed to achieve widespread Black landownership.
E545332 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: Southern Homestead Act of 1866 | Statement: [Homestead Act of 1862, relatedLegislation, Southern Homestead Act of 1866]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Homestead Act of 1866
Context triple: [Homestead Act of 1862, relatedLegislation, Southern Homestead Act of 1866]
  • A. Homestead Act of 1862
    The Homestead Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by granting settlers ownership of public land, typically 160 acres, if they lived on and improved it for a set period.
  • B. Act of June 28, 1864
    The Act of June 28, 1864 was a U.S. federal law passed during the Civil War that helped dismantle the legal framework of slavery by repealing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
  • C. Mississippi Plan of 1875
    The Mississippi Plan of 1875 was a coordinated campaign of violence, intimidation, and electoral fraud by white Democrats in Mississippi to overthrow Republican Reconstruction governments and suppress Black political participation.
  • D. Treaty of 1863
    The Treaty of 1863 was a controversial agreement that drastically reduced the Nez Perce homeland in the Pacific Northwest, paving the way for increased U.S. settlement and later conflict.
  • E. Cullom Act
    The Cullom Act was a late 19th-century U.S. federal law associated with Senator Shelby M. Cullom, best known for addressing issues of interstate commerce regulation.
  • 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: Southern Homestead Act of 1866
Triple: [Homestead Act of 1862, relatedLegislation, Southern Homestead Act of 1866]
Generated description
The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a Reconstruction-era U.S. law that aimed to provide land in the South to formerly enslaved people and loyal white settlers, though in practice it largely failed to achieve widespread Black landownership.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Homestead Act of 1866
Target entity description: The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a Reconstruction-era U.S. law that aimed to provide land in the South to formerly enslaved people and loyal white settlers, though in practice it largely failed to achieve widespread Black landownership.
  • A. Homestead Act of 1862
    The Homestead Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by granting settlers ownership of public land, typically 160 acres, if they lived on and improved it for a set period.
  • B. Act of June 28, 1864
    The Act of June 28, 1864 was a U.S. federal law passed during the Civil War that helped dismantle the legal framework of slavery by repealing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
  • C. Mississippi Plan of 1875
    The Mississippi Plan of 1875 was a coordinated campaign of violence, intimidation, and electoral fraud by white Democrats in Mississippi to overthrow Republican Reconstruction governments and suppress Black political participation.
  • D. Treaty of 1863
    The Treaty of 1863 was a controversial agreement that drastically reduced the Nez Perce homeland in the Pacific Northwest, paving the way for increased U.S. settlement and later conflict.
  • E. Cullom Act
    The Cullom Act was a late 19th-century U.S. federal law associated with Senator Shelby M. Cullom, best known for addressing issues of interstate commerce regulation.
  • 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_69c0084450048190bc647b649a05136b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a17315881908aa12a830ba5f22b completed March 22, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07e7773888190bd8c3e1d7df62f5c completed March 22, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c086cd0904819089dbacd6c948abec completed March 23, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0873661788190847751ba82975e82 completed March 23, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.