Triple
T16814639
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ottawa, Illinois |
E408709
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasHistoricalEvent |
P2107
|
FINISHED |
| Object | 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debate |
E278449
|
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: 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debate | Statement: [Ottawa, Illinois, hasHistoricalEvent, 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debate]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debate Context triple: [Ottawa, Illinois, hasHistoricalEvent, 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debate]
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A.
Lincoln–Douglas debates
chosen
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven 1858 Illinois Senate campaign debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas that focused on slavery and helped elevate Lincoln to national prominence.
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B.
Hayne–Webster debate
The Hayne–Webster debate was a famous 1830 U.S. Senate exchange between Robert Y. Hayne and Daniel Webster over states’ rights, nullification, and the nature of the federal Union.
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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.
Lane Debates on Slavery
Lane Debates on Slavery were a series of influential 1834 antislavery discussions by students at Lane Theological Seminary that helped galvanize the American abolitionist movement.
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E.
Bascom Affair
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
- 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_69d88394566c8190b3dcbdc72935f7fa |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3b2e0e05081908bd5eaa64abe133d |
completed | April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00bb0f863081908e74dc4a7c91e91d |
completed | May 10, 2026, 5:06 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:23 a.m.