Triple
T6051132
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania |
E134795
|
entity |
| Predicate | addressesEvent |
P265
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Townshend Revenue Act |
E218403
|
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: Townshend Revenue Act | Statement: [Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, addressesEvent, Townshend Revenue Act]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Townshend Revenue Act Context triple: [Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, addressesEvent, Townshend Revenue Act]
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A.
Stamp Act 1765
The Stamp Act 1765 was a British parliamentary tax on printed materials in the American colonies that sparked widespread protest and helped catalyze the movement toward the American Revolution.
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B.
Revenue Act of 1767
chosen
The Revenue Act of 1767 was a British law imposing duties on imports to the American colonies, becoming a major source of colonial resentment that helped spark the American Revolution.
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C.
Sugar Act 1764
The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British revenue-raising law that tightened customs enforcement and imposed duties on sugar and molasses in the American colonies, contributing to growing colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
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D.
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
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E.
Revenue Act 1766
The Revenue Act of 1766 was a British law that revised colonial taxation after the repeal of earlier duties, forming part of the broader imperial policies that fueled growing tensions between Britain and its American colonies.
- 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_69c00877b6d4819096b0e163728b73a3 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c056f66cb08190a782cdd038f26b93 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c1357027388190beef9b9d9f5e37f6 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:43 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:09 p.m.