Triple
T13414718
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nebraska Territory |
E313180
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object | passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act |
E54193
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act | Statement: [Nebraska Territory, significantEvent, passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act Context triple: [Nebraska Territory, significantEvent, passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act]
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A.
Kansas–Nebraska Act
chosen
The Kansas–Nebraska Act was an 1854 U.S. law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and inflamed sectional tensions by allowing settlers there to decide the legality of slavery through popular sovereignty, effectively nullifying the Missouri Compromise.
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B.
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed 1846 U.S. legislative amendment that sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, intensifying sectional tensions and shaping antebellum politics.
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C.
Missouri statehood controversy
The Missouri statehood controversy was an early 19th-century political conflict over the expansion of slavery into new U.S. territories, culminating in the Missouri Compromise and exposing deep sectional tensions between North and South.
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D.
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
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E.
Lecompton Constitution
The Lecompton Constitution was a pro-slavery draft constitution for Kansas in the 1850s that sparked intense national controversy and became a key flashpoint in the sectional conflict leading up to the American Civil War.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d806ad0c44819088833ae1ec9e9690 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbaeb6e904819098cc9153fd2feaf5 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f73987cc088190839e8a589086639c |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:03 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:39 p.m.