Triple

T7856227
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject General Mining Act of 1872 E182381 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Placer Act of 1870
The Placer Act of 1870 was a U.S. federal law that expanded and clarified miners’ rights to locate and develop placer (loose mineral) deposits on public lands, helping lay the groundwork for later comprehensive mining legislation.
E700816 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: Placer Act of 1870 | Statement: [General Mining Act of 1872, influencedBy, Placer Act of 1870]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Placer Act of 1870
Context triple: [General Mining Act of 1872, influencedBy, Placer Act of 1870]
  • A. General Allotment Act of 1887
    The General Allotment Act of 1887, commonly known as the Dawes Act, was a U.S. federal law that broke up communal Native American lands into individual allotments in an effort to promote assimilation and open “surplus” lands to non-Native settlement.
  • B. 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.
  • C. the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
    The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 was a U.S. law that greatly increased federal purchases of silver, expanding the money supply and contributing to financial instability in the early 1890s.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Pacific Railway Act of 1864
    The Pacific Railway Act of 1864 was a U.S. federal law that expanded financial incentives and land grants to accelerate construction of the transcontinental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
  • 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: Placer Act of 1870
Triple: [General Mining Act of 1872, influencedBy, Placer Act of 1870]
Generated description
The Placer Act of 1870 was a U.S. federal law that expanded and clarified miners’ rights to locate and develop placer (loose mineral) deposits on public lands, helping lay the groundwork for later comprehensive mining legislation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Placer Act of 1870
Target entity description: The Placer Act of 1870 was a U.S. federal law that expanded and clarified miners’ rights to locate and develop placer (loose mineral) deposits on public lands, helping lay the groundwork for later comprehensive mining legislation.
  • A. General Allotment Act of 1887
    The General Allotment Act of 1887, commonly known as the Dawes Act, was a U.S. federal law that broke up communal Native American lands into individual allotments in an effort to promote assimilation and open “surplus” lands to non-Native settlement.
  • B. 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.
  • C. the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
    The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 was a U.S. law that greatly increased federal purchases of silver, expanding the money supply and contributing to financial instability in the early 1890s.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Pacific Railway Act of 1864
    The Pacific Railway Act of 1864 was a U.S. federal law that expanded financial incentives and land grants to accelerate construction of the transcontinental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
  • 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_69ca82887fd48190975896bf38c4596b completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb1a75de548190af5653409a3b3881 completed March 31, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5b2e2980819083369668938bae9c completed March 31, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb762fda2c81908ed508e12cabb938 completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cbbf706e888190bfd08d9d78945c49 completed March 31, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:52 p.m.