Triple

T1955105
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Townshend Acts era E42249 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Commissioners of Customs Act 1767
The Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 was a British law that created a new customs board in the American colonies to more strictly enforce trade regulations and raise revenue, contributing to rising colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
E218405 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: Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 | Statement: [Townshend Acts era, hasPart, Commissioners of Customs Act 1767]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commissioners of Customs Act 1767
Context triple: [Townshend Acts era, hasPart, Commissioners of Customs Act 1767]
  • A. Revenue Act 1766
    The Revenue Act of 1766 was a British law that revised colonial taxation after the repeal of earlier duties, forming part of the broader imperial policies that fueled growing tensions between Britain and its American colonies.
  • B. Sugar Act 1764
    The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British revenue-raising law that tightened customs enforcement and imposed duties on sugar and molasses in the American colonies, contributing to growing colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
  • C. Molasses Act 1733
    The Molasses Act 1733 was a British law imposing heavy duties on foreign molasses imported into the American colonies, aiming to protect British West Indies sugar interests and contributing to growing colonial resentment toward imperial trade restrictions.
  • D. Declaratory Act 1766
    The Declaratory Act of 1766 was a British law asserting Parliament’s full authority to make binding laws for the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever,” passed alongside the repeal of the Stamp Act and heightening colonial tensions that led toward the American Revolution.
  • E. India Act 1784
    The India Act 1784 was a British law that restructured the governance of the East India Company and placed its political administration in India under closer control of the British government.
  • 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: Commissioners of Customs Act 1767
Triple: [Townshend Acts era, hasPart, Commissioners of Customs Act 1767]
Generated description
The Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 was a British law that created a new customs board in the American colonies to more strictly enforce trade regulations and raise revenue, contributing to rising colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commissioners of Customs Act 1767
Target entity description: The Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 was a British law that created a new customs board in the American colonies to more strictly enforce trade regulations and raise revenue, contributing to rising colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
  • A. Revenue Act 1766
    The Revenue Act of 1766 was a British law that revised colonial taxation after the repeal of earlier duties, forming part of the broader imperial policies that fueled growing tensions between Britain and its American colonies.
  • B. Sugar Act 1764
    The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British revenue-raising law that tightened customs enforcement and imposed duties on sugar and molasses in the American colonies, contributing to growing colonial resentment before the American Revolution.
  • C. Molasses Act 1733
    The Molasses Act 1733 was a British law imposing heavy duties on foreign molasses imported into the American colonies, aiming to protect British West Indies sugar interests and contributing to growing colonial resentment toward imperial trade restrictions.
  • D. Declaratory Act 1766
    The Declaratory Act of 1766 was a British law asserting Parliament’s full authority to make binding laws for the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever,” passed alongside the repeal of the Stamp Act and heightening colonial tensions that led toward the American Revolution.
  • E. India Act 1784
    The India Act 1784 was a British law that restructured the governance of the East India Company and placed its political administration in India under closer control of the British government.
  • 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_69a8870eea088190a38781990812a9bc completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb353aa8c81909810347f9981a02f completed March 7, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbc8146c819084d3dc3b16efb123 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc6bd8e08190a065a89ab3412126 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfcee414c8190b1a0574f6bd55602 completed March 8, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.