Triple

T8196801
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Port of Lancaster (historic) E191451 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Lancaster slave trade
The Lancaster slave trade was the involvement of the English city and port of Lancaster in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
E718481 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: Lancaster slave trade | Statement: [Port of Lancaster (historic), associatedWith, Lancaster slave trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lancaster slave trade
Context triple: [Port of Lancaster (historic), associatedWith, Lancaster slave trade]
  • A. Atlantic slave trade
    The Atlantic slave trade was a transoceanic system from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into chattel slavery, profoundly shaping the economic and social history of the Atlantic world.
  • B. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • C. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • D. Slave Trade Act 1824
    The Slave Trade Act 1824 was a British law that strengthened and expanded earlier legislation against the transatlantic slave trade by increasing penalties and enforcement measures to suppress it more effectively.
  • E. Dahomey and the Slave Trade
    "Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
  • 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: Lancaster slave trade
Triple: [Port of Lancaster (historic), associatedWith, Lancaster slave trade]
Generated description
The Lancaster slave trade was the involvement of the English city and port of Lancaster in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lancaster slave trade
Target entity description: The Lancaster slave trade was the involvement of the English city and port of Lancaster in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. Atlantic slave trade
    The Atlantic slave trade was a transoceanic system from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into chattel slavery, profoundly shaping the economic and social history of the Atlantic world.
  • B. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • C. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • D. Slave Trade Act 1824
    The Slave Trade Act 1824 was a British law that strengthened and expanded earlier legislation against the transatlantic slave trade by increasing penalties and enforcement measures to suppress it more effectively.
  • E. Dahomey and the Slave Trade
    "Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
  • 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_69ca82c6e9548190a4c5ca14516e4417 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb5c222e7081908aebce9253cfe515 completed March 31, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccedb3cd488190b87e134dd0426a6d completed April 1, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf1b706f08190993f4a75eac5f49c completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd05ac594c819087d23a7318fd7704 completed April 1, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:42 p.m.