Triple

T5782228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Homestead Act of 1862 E128185 entity
Predicate relatedLegislation P3136 FINISHED
Object Desert Land Act
The Desert Land Act was a U.S. federal law enacted in 1877 to encourage the irrigation and settlement of arid public lands in the American West by allowing individuals to acquire large tracts cheaply if they agreed to irrigate them.
E545334 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: Desert Land Act | Statement: [Homestead Act of 1862, relatedLegislation, Desert Land Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Desert Land Act
Context triple: [Homestead Act of 1862, relatedLegislation, Desert Land Act]
  • 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. Reclamation Act of 1902
    The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a U.S. federal law that launched large-scale, federally funded irrigation and water management projects to promote agricultural development and settlement in the arid Western states.
  • C. Taylor Grazing Act
    The Taylor Grazing Act is a 1934 U.S. federal law that established a system to regulate and manage livestock grazing on public lands to prevent overgrazing and land degradation.
  • D. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
    The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 was a New Deal-era U.S. law that encouraged farmers to adopt soil-conserving practices by providing federal subsidies, aiming to combat erosion and environmental damage highlighted by the Dust Bowl.
  • E. Mineral Leasing Act
    The Mineral Leasing Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the leasing and development of publicly owned mineral resources such as oil, gas, coal, and other fuels on federal lands.
  • 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: Desert Land Act
Triple: [Homestead Act of 1862, relatedLegislation, Desert Land Act]
Generated description
The Desert Land Act was a U.S. federal law enacted in 1877 to encourage the irrigation and settlement of arid public lands in the American West by allowing individuals to acquire large tracts cheaply if they agreed to irrigate them.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Desert Land Act
Target entity description: The Desert Land Act was a U.S. federal law enacted in 1877 to encourage the irrigation and settlement of arid public lands in the American West by allowing individuals to acquire large tracts cheaply if they agreed to irrigate them.
  • 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. Reclamation Act of 1902
    The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a U.S. federal law that launched large-scale, federally funded irrigation and water management projects to promote agricultural development and settlement in the arid Western states.
  • C. Taylor Grazing Act
    The Taylor Grazing Act is a 1934 U.S. federal law that established a system to regulate and manage livestock grazing on public lands to prevent overgrazing and land degradation.
  • D. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
    The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 was a New Deal-era U.S. law that encouraged farmers to adopt soil-conserving practices by providing federal subsidies, aiming to combat erosion and environmental damage highlighted by the Dust Bowl.
  • E. Mineral Leasing Act
    The Mineral Leasing Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the leasing and development of publicly owned mineral resources such as oil, gas, coal, and other fuels on federal lands.
  • 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.