Triple

T1585920
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fort Monroe, Virginia E34064 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861
The “Contraband decision” was an 1861 Civil War–era policy at Fort Monroe, Virginia, that treated escaped enslaved people who reached Union lines as confiscated enemy property rather than returned fugitives, effectively granting them refuge and undermining slavery.
E178496 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: “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861 | Statement: [Fort Monroe, Virginia, notableEvent, “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861
Context triple: [Fort Monroe, Virginia, notableEvent, “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861]
  • A. A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
    A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves is a mid-19th-century painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that dramatically depicts an enslaved family fleeing to Union lines during the Civil War.
  • B. Fugitive Slave Clause
    The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
  • C. Records of Fugitives
    Records of Fugitives is an important 19th-century manuscript documenting the experiences and escape routes of enslaved people who fled to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
  • D. Slave Trade Clause
    The Slave Trade Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that temporarily protected the transatlantic importation of enslaved people by preventing Congress from banning it before 1808.
  • E. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a controversial U.S. federal law that strengthened requirements for the capture and return of escaped enslaved people and penalized officials and citizens who aided their escape, intensifying sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • 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: “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861
Triple: [Fort Monroe, Virginia, notableEvent, “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861]
Generated description
The “Contraband decision” was an 1861 Civil War–era policy at Fort Monroe, Virginia, that treated escaped enslaved people who reached Union lines as confiscated enemy property rather than returned fugitives, effectively granting them refuge and undermining slavery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Contraband decision” offering refuge to escaped enslaved people in 1861
Target entity description: The “Contraband decision” was an 1861 Civil War–era policy at Fort Monroe, Virginia, that treated escaped enslaved people who reached Union lines as confiscated enemy property rather than returned fugitives, effectively granting them refuge and undermining slavery.
  • A. A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
    A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves is a mid-19th-century painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that dramatically depicts an enslaved family fleeing to Union lines during the Civil War.
  • B. Fugitive Slave Clause
    The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
  • C. Records of Fugitives
    Records of Fugitives is an important 19th-century manuscript documenting the experiences and escape routes of enslaved people who fled to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
  • D. Slave Trade Clause
    The Slave Trade Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that temporarily protected the transatlantic importation of enslaved people by preventing Congress from banning it before 1808.
  • E. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a controversial U.S. federal law that strengthened requirements for the capture and return of escaped enslaved people and penalized officials and citizens who aided their escape, intensifying sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • 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_69a885fceb2c8190b47e0f7c0aefbff0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908f3b5f48190bd5eff3ce81c5ffb completed March 5, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad4037bbdc81909bcf9c5c7a7f5de5 completed March 8, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad40e8dc04819084607a2d49c8fca2 completed March 8, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad413c17a08190bd71cc44d3a56510 completed March 8, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.