Triple

T9699292
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Federal Maritime Commission E234732 entity
Predicate appliesLaw P125 FINISHED
Object Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988
The Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988 is a U.S. law that empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to address unfair or discriminatory shipping practices by foreign governments or carriers affecting U.S. oceanborne trade.
E816370 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: Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988 | Statement: [United States Federal Maritime Commission, appliesLaw, Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988
Context triple: [United States Federal Maritime Commission, appliesLaw, Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988]
  • A. Shipping Act of 1984
    The Shipping Act of 1984 is a U.S. federal law that modernized and deregulated the international ocean shipping industry by promoting competition and reducing government oversight of carrier agreements and practices.
  • B. Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998
    The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 is a U.S. federal law that modernized and deregulated international ocean liner shipping by promoting confidential service contracts and greater competition in the maritime transport industry.
  • C. Merchant Marine Act of 1970
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is a U.S. federal law that updated and expanded national maritime policy, including shipbuilding and fleet modernization programs, to strengthen the American merchant marine.
  • D. Maritime Security Act of 1996
    The Maritime Security Act of 1996 is a U.S. federal law that established a framework to maintain a modern, militarily useful U.S.-flag commercial fleet available to support national defense and economic security.
  • E. Merchant Shipping Act
    The Merchant Shipping Act is a key piece of United Kingdom legislation that regulates British merchant vessels, their registration, safety standards, and the rules under which they operate at sea.
  • 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: Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988
Triple: [United States Federal Maritime Commission, appliesLaw, Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988]
Generated description
The Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988 is a U.S. law that empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to address unfair or discriminatory shipping practices by foreign governments or carriers affecting U.S. oceanborne trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988
Target entity description: The Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988 is a U.S. law that empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to address unfair or discriminatory shipping practices by foreign governments or carriers affecting U.S. oceanborne trade.
  • A. Shipping Act of 1984
    The Shipping Act of 1984 is a U.S. federal law that modernized and deregulated the international ocean shipping industry by promoting competition and reducing government oversight of carrier agreements and practices.
  • B. Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998
    The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 is a U.S. federal law that modernized and deregulated international ocean liner shipping by promoting confidential service contracts and greater competition in the maritime transport industry.
  • C. Merchant Marine Act of 1970
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is a U.S. federal law that updated and expanded national maritime policy, including shipbuilding and fleet modernization programs, to strengthen the American merchant marine.
  • D. Maritime Security Act of 1996
    The Maritime Security Act of 1996 is a U.S. federal law that established a framework to maintain a modern, militarily useful U.S.-flag commercial fleet available to support national defense and economic security.
  • E. Merchant Shipping Act
    The Merchant Shipping Act is a key piece of United Kingdom legislation that regulates British merchant vessels, their registration, safety standards, and the rules under which they operate at sea.
  • 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_69ca84cb580c8190a7e5f4b3bcdaf2a4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9d3d425c8190b652d84186b5ce9f completed April 1, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f7cecd0819081929611b7881102 completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1a0b4dbf8819097e38c253327fc10 completed April 4, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1a172ad848190a76f95c4937689d7 completed April 4, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.