Triple

T5806647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Navigation Act 1673 E128760 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object British Navigation Acts
The British Navigation Acts were a series of 17th–18th century mercantilist laws that regulated colonial trade to favor English shipping and economic interests.
 E548617 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: British Navigation Acts | Statement: [Navigation Act 1673, partOf, British Navigation Acts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British Navigation Acts
Context triple: [Navigation Act 1673, partOf, British Navigation Acts]
  • A. Navigation Act 1651
    The Navigation Act of 1651 was an English mercantilist law aimed primarily at undermining Dutch maritime dominance by restricting colonial trade to English ships and crews.
  • B. Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping
    The Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping was an English mercantilist law designed to restrict foreign, especially Dutch, access to English trade and maritime commerce in order to bolster England’s own shipping and economic power.
  • C. Navigation Act 1663
    The Navigation Act 1663 was an English mercantile law that tightened control over colonial trade by requiring that most goods bound for the American colonies be shipped through England first, reinforcing the economic dominance of the mother country.
  • D. Navigation Act 1673
    The Navigation Act 1673 was an English law that strengthened mercantilist control over colonial trade by requiring that certain goods be shipped through England and carried on English or colonial vessels.
  • E. Navigation Act 1660
    The Navigation Act 1660 was a key English mercantile law that restricted colonial trade to English ships and markets, strengthening England’s control over its empire and laying groundwork for later colonial tensions.
  • 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: British Navigation Acts
Triple: [Navigation Act 1673, partOf, British Navigation Acts]
Generated description
The British Navigation Acts were a series of 17th–18th century mercantilist laws that regulated colonial trade to favor English shipping and economic interests.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British Navigation Acts
Target entity description: The British Navigation Acts were a series of 17th–18th century mercantilist laws that regulated colonial trade to favor English shipping and economic interests.
  • A. Navigation Act 1651
    The Navigation Act of 1651 was an English mercantilist law aimed primarily at undermining Dutch maritime dominance by restricting colonial trade to English ships and crews.
  • B. Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping
    The Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping was an English mercantilist law designed to restrict foreign, especially Dutch, access to English trade and maritime commerce in order to bolster England’s own shipping and economic power.
  • C. Navigation Act 1663
    The Navigation Act 1663 was an English mercantile law that tightened control over colonial trade by requiring that most goods bound for the American colonies be shipped through England first, reinforcing the economic dominance of the mother country.
  • D. Navigation Act 1673
    The Navigation Act 1673 was an English law that strengthened mercantilist control over colonial trade by requiring that certain goods be shipped through England and carried on English or colonial vessels.
  • E. Navigation Act 1660
    The Navigation Act 1660 was a key English mercantile law that restricted colonial trade to English ships and markets, strengthening England’s control over its empire and laying groundwork for later colonial tensions.
  • 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_69c00846a0d881909e46841f8e156b64 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02b15d8108190b434da42631c4e0c completed March 22, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0983a0b648190ba2c76434d3b1b58 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c099c8c9448190a3847ac984123d7a completed March 23, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09a458c488190b9e2716fc47cf601 completed March 23, 2026, 1:41 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:52 p.m.