Triple

T21508698
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steamboat Act of 1852 E530660 entity
Predicate replaces P101 FINISHED
Object Steamboat Act of 1838
The Steamboat Act of 1838 was an early U.S. federal law aimed at improving the safety of steamboat travel, particularly in response to frequent boiler explosions and related accidents on American waterways.
E1488320 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: Steamboat Act of 1838 | Statement: [Steamboat Act of 1852, replaces, Steamboat Act of 1838]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steamboat Act of 1838
Context triple: [Steamboat Act of 1852, replaces, Steamboat Act of 1838]
  • A. Steamboat Act of 1852
    The Steamboat Act of 1852 was a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened safety regulations for steamboats, particularly by mandating inspections and licensing to reduce boiler explosions and protect passengers.
  • B. Navigation Act 1786
    The Navigation Act 1786 was a late 18th-century British mercantile law regulating maritime trade and shipping, forming part of the broader Navigation Acts system that controlled colonial commerce in favor of Britain.
  • C. Cullom Act
    The Cullom Act was a late 19th-century U.S. federal law associated with Senator Shelby M. Cullom, best known for addressing issues of interstate commerce regulation.
  • D. Navigation Act 1849
    The Navigation Act 1849 was a British law that effectively ended the traditional Navigation Acts system by abolishing many protectionist restrictions on foreign shipping and opening British trade to greater international competition.
  • E. Glass–Owen Act
    The Glass–Owen Act is the landmark 1913 U.S. law that created the Federal Reserve System as the nation’s central bank to stabilize the financial system and manage monetary policy.
  • 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: Steamboat Act of 1838
Triple: [Steamboat Act of 1852, replaces, Steamboat Act of 1838]
Generated description
The Steamboat Act of 1838 was an early U.S. federal law aimed at improving the safety of steamboat travel, particularly in response to frequent boiler explosions and related accidents on American waterways.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steamboat Act of 1838
Target entity description: The Steamboat Act of 1838 was an early U.S. federal law aimed at improving the safety of steamboat travel, particularly in response to frequent boiler explosions and related accidents on American waterways.
  • A. Steamboat Act of 1852
    The Steamboat Act of 1852 was a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened safety regulations for steamboats, particularly by mandating inspections and licensing to reduce boiler explosions and protect passengers.
  • B. Navigation Act 1786
    The Navigation Act 1786 was a late 18th-century British mercantile law regulating maritime trade and shipping, forming part of the broader Navigation Acts system that controlled colonial commerce in favor of Britain.
  • C. Cullom Act
    The Cullom Act was a late 19th-century U.S. federal law associated with Senator Shelby M. Cullom, best known for addressing issues of interstate commerce regulation.
  • D. Navigation Act 1849
    The Navigation Act 1849 was a British law that effectively ended the traditional Navigation Acts system by abolishing many protectionist restrictions on foreign shipping and opening British trade to greater international competition.
  • E. Glass–Owen Act
    The Glass–Owen Act is the landmark 1913 U.S. law that created the Federal Reserve System as the nation’s central bank to stabilize the financial system and manage monetary policy.
  • 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_69e0c45c81f08190a6b8bbb70a45aae7 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e9ea84042481909b43a7a4c5d2336a completed April 23, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09e1414ca88190973fcd9d2866c883 completed May 17, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09e2d3cc6881909c1c23d06b8dfb16 completed May 17, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09e346d35481909a6c12377e12e525 completed May 17, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:24 p.m.