Triple

T1114465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 E11064 entity
Predicate amendedBy P1121 FINISHED
Object 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.
E130610 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: Pacific Railway Act of 1864 | Statement: [Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862, amendedBy, Pacific Railway Act of 1864]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Railway Act of 1864
Context triple: [Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862, amendedBy, Pacific Railway Act of 1864]
  • A. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • B. Hepburn Act regulation of railroads
    The Hepburn Act regulation of railroads was a landmark 1906 U.S. law that greatly strengthened federal oversight of railroad rates and practices by expanding the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Wagner–Steagall Act
    The Wagner–Steagall Act was a landmark 1937 U.S. federal law that created a permanent public housing program aimed at providing decent, affordable housing for low-income families.
  • 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: Pacific Railway Act of 1864
Triple: [Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862, amendedBy, Pacific Railway Act of 1864]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Railway Act of 1864
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • B. Hepburn Act regulation of railroads
    The Hepburn Act regulation of railroads was a landmark 1906 U.S. law that greatly strengthened federal oversight of railroad rates and practices by expanding the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Wagner–Steagall Act
    The Wagner–Steagall Act was a landmark 1937 U.S. federal law that created a permanent public housing program aimed at providing decent, affordable housing for low-income families.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bba161e881908dcd1a66522abf5d completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac59a4316c8190a4adc10e454c2855 completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5b4833788190958ce030dc9da977 completed March 7, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5bbf0efc8190a90c244a2ab35155 completed March 7, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.