Triple

T1042501
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Navigation Acts E22498 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Navigation Act 1696
The Navigation Act 1696 was a British law that strengthened imperial control over colonial trade by tightening enforcement of earlier Navigation Acts and expanding customs regulations in the American colonies.
E129263 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: Navigation Act 1696 | Statement: [Navigation Acts, hasPart, Navigation Act 1696]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Navigation Act 1696
Context triple: [Navigation Acts, hasPart, Navigation Act 1696]
  • A. Navigation Act 1663
    The Navigation Act 1663 was an English mercantile law that tightened control over colonial trade by requiring that most goods bound for the American colonies be shipped through England first, reinforcing the economic dominance of the mother country.
  • B. Navigation Act 1673
    The Navigation Act 1673 was an English law that strengthened mercantilist control over colonial trade by requiring that certain goods be shipped through England and carried on English or colonial vessels.
  • C. Navigation Act 1660
    The Navigation Act 1660 was a key English mercantile law that restricted colonial trade to English ships and markets, strengthening England’s control over its empire and laying groundwork for later colonial tensions.
  • D. Navigation Act 1651
    The Navigation Act of 1651 was an English mercantilist law aimed primarily at undermining Dutch maritime dominance by restricting colonial trade to English ships and crews.
  • E. Act of Security 1704
    The Act of Security 1704 was a pivotal Scottish law asserting the Scottish Parliament’s right to choose a separate successor to the throne from England unless key economic and political conditions were met, intensifying the constitutional crisis that led to the 1707 Acts of Union.
  • 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: Navigation Act 1696
Triple: [Navigation Acts, hasPart, Navigation Act 1696]
Generated description
The Navigation Act 1696 was a British law that strengthened imperial control over colonial trade by tightening enforcement of earlier Navigation Acts and expanding customs regulations in the American colonies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Navigation Act 1696
Target entity description: The Navigation Act 1696 was a British law that strengthened imperial control over colonial trade by tightening enforcement of earlier Navigation Acts and expanding customs regulations in the American colonies.
  • A. Navigation Act 1663
    The Navigation Act 1663 was an English mercantile law that tightened control over colonial trade by requiring that most goods bound for the American colonies be shipped through England first, reinforcing the economic dominance of the mother country.
  • B. Navigation Act 1673
    The Navigation Act 1673 was an English law that strengthened mercantilist control over colonial trade by requiring that certain goods be shipped through England and carried on English or colonial vessels.
  • C. Navigation Act 1660
    The Navigation Act 1660 was a key English mercantile law that restricted colonial trade to English ships and markets, strengthening England’s control over its empire and laying groundwork for later colonial tensions.
  • D. Navigation Act 1651
    The Navigation Act of 1651 was an English mercantilist law aimed primarily at undermining Dutch maritime dominance by restricting colonial trade to English ships and crews.
  • E. Act of Security 1704
    The Act of Security 1704 was a pivotal Scottish law asserting the Scottish Parliament’s right to choose a separate successor to the throne from England unless key economic and political conditions were met, intensifying the constitutional crisis that led to the 1707 Acts of Union.
  • 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_69a493d91478819094cc01fb65564bc1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b845fa8c8190a7b69629883b62e2 completed March 1, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5999d30881909bc9e2d8528b1b56 completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5a0047d481909989d470db7a3ae2 completed March 7, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5a8c4be88190b53a42dd356b99fb completed March 7, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.