Triple

T6423236
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ida Tarbell E127994 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Tariff in Our Times
The Tariff in Our Times is a historical and economic study by muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell that critically examines the development and impact of U.S. tariff policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E592258 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: The Tariff in Our Times | Statement: [Ida Tarbell, notableWork, The Tariff in Our Times]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tariff in Our Times
Context triple: [Ida Tarbell, notableWork, The Tariff in Our Times]
  • A. Reports on the relation of tariffs to industrial combinations
    "Reports on the relation of tariffs to industrial combinations" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing how tariff policies influenced the formation and power of industrial trusts and combinations.
  • B. Letters on Commercial Policy
    "Letters on Commercial Policy" is an influential 19th-century economic treatise by Robert Torrens that analyzes and advocates principles of international trade and commercial policy.
  • C. Hamilton Tariff
    The Hamilton Tariff was the first major U.S. federal tariff law, designed under Alexander Hamilton to raise revenue for the new government and protect emerging American industries after the Constitution’s adoption.
  • D. Tariff of 1857 debates
    The Tariff of 1857 debates were mid-19th-century U.S. congressional discussions over a major reduction in import duties that reflected growing sectional tensions and shifting economic priorities before the Civil War.
  • E. Underwood Tariff Act
    The Underwood Tariff Act was a 1913 U.S. law that significantly lowered tariff rates and introduced a federal income tax, marking a major progressive reform in national economic policy.
  • 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: The Tariff in Our Times
Triple: [Ida Tarbell, notableWork, The Tariff in Our Times]
Generated description
The Tariff in Our Times is a historical and economic study by muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell that critically examines the development and impact of U.S. tariff policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tariff in Our Times
Target entity description: The Tariff in Our Times is a historical and economic study by muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell that critically examines the development and impact of U.S. tariff policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Reports on the relation of tariffs to industrial combinations
    "Reports on the relation of tariffs to industrial combinations" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing how tariff policies influenced the formation and power of industrial trusts and combinations.
  • B. Letters on Commercial Policy
    "Letters on Commercial Policy" is an influential 19th-century economic treatise by Robert Torrens that analyzes and advocates principles of international trade and commercial policy.
  • C. Hamilton Tariff
    The Hamilton Tariff was the first major U.S. federal tariff law, designed under Alexander Hamilton to raise revenue for the new government and protect emerging American industries after the Constitution’s adoption.
  • D. Tariff of 1857 debates
    The Tariff of 1857 debates were mid-19th-century U.S. congressional discussions over a major reduction in import duties that reflected growing sectional tensions and shifting economic priorities before the Civil War.
  • E. Underwood Tariff Act
    The Underwood Tariff Act was a 1913 U.S. law that significantly lowered tariff rates and introduced a federal income tax, marking a major progressive reform in national economic policy.
  • 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_69c00838de888190af2eec0b80495efa completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0690576c48190b5db5464eacc9de3 completed March 22, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c640dc01188190b67290801aae0d6c completed March 27, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c642d95c1481909c0bececbcef2929 completed March 27, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c643579a388190a2b07669539bd9b7 completed March 27, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:43 p.m.