Triple

T8672817
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patent Clause of the United States Constitution E205839 entity
Predicate isBasisFor P7051 FINISHED
Object Patent Act of 1790
The Patent Act of 1790 was the first federal patent statute in the United States, establishing a formal system for granting exclusive rights to inventors and laying the foundation of American patent law.
E748470 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: Patent Act of 1790 | Statement: [Patent Clause of the United States Constitution, isBasisFor, Patent Act of 1790]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patent Act of 1790
Context triple: [Patent Clause of the United States Constitution, isBasisFor, Patent Act of 1790]
  • A. Patent Clause of the United States Constitution
    The Patent Clause of the United States Constitution is the provision that empowers Congress to grant inventors exclusive rights to their discoveries for limited times in order to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
  • B. Letters Patent of 1787
    The Letters Patent of 1787 were a formal legal instrument issued by the British Crown that established the boundaries and governance framework of the Colony of New South Wales in Australia.
  • C. Patent Act of 1952
    The Patent Act of 1952 is a foundational United States federal statute that comprehensively codified and modernized the nation’s patent laws, defining standards for patentability and the rights of inventors.
  • D. Tariff Act of 1790
    The Tariff Act of 1790 was an early U.S. federal law that established import duties to fund the national government and support maritime enforcement, laying groundwork for the young nation's customs and revenue system.
  • E. Patent of Toleration (1781)
    The Patent of Toleration (1781) was an edict by Emperor Joseph II that granted limited religious freedom and civil rights to non-Catholic Christians within the Habsburg Monarchy.
  • 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: Patent Act of 1790
Triple: [Patent Clause of the United States Constitution, isBasisFor, Patent Act of 1790]
Generated description
The Patent Act of 1790 was the first federal patent statute in the United States, establishing a formal system for granting exclusive rights to inventors and laying the foundation of American patent law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patent Act of 1790
Target entity description: The Patent Act of 1790 was the first federal patent statute in the United States, establishing a formal system for granting exclusive rights to inventors and laying the foundation of American patent law.
  • A. Patent Clause of the United States Constitution
    The Patent Clause of the United States Constitution is the provision that empowers Congress to grant inventors exclusive rights to their discoveries for limited times in order to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
  • B. Letters Patent of 1787
    The Letters Patent of 1787 were a formal legal instrument issued by the British Crown that established the boundaries and governance framework of the Colony of New South Wales in Australia.
  • C. Patent Act of 1952
    The Patent Act of 1952 is a foundational United States federal statute that comprehensively codified and modernized the nation’s patent laws, defining standards for patentability and the rights of inventors.
  • D. Tariff Act of 1790
    The Tariff Act of 1790 was an early U.S. federal law that established import duties to fund the national government and support maritime enforcement, laying groundwork for the young nation's customs and revenue system.
  • E. Patent of Toleration (1781)
    The Patent of Toleration (1781) was an edict by Emperor Joseph II that granted limited religious freedom and civil rights to non-Catholic Christians within the Habsburg Monarchy.
  • 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_69ca83529a9c8190b5c075b4f14636ed completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc491b807c81909563a34a947bc21a completed March 31, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cecd3a3c5c8190940a61e7e7b3e887 completed April 2, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cece908adc8190b6ea8d971868cbf8 completed April 2, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cecf14eaa481908f8630872c21b3b3 completed April 2, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:31 p.m.