Triple

T221535
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merchant Marine Act of 1936 E4223 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Shipping Act of 1916
The Shipping Act of 1916 was a foundational U.S. maritime law that established federal regulation of ocean shipping practices and created the United States Shipping Board to oversee fair competition and rates in international trade.
E29321 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: Shipping Act of 1916 | Statement: [Merchant Marine Act of 1936, relatedTo, Shipping Act of 1916]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shipping Act of 1916
Context triple: [Merchant Marine Act of 1936, relatedTo, Shipping Act of 1916]
  • A. Merchant Marine Act of 1936
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is a U.S. federal law that established policies and programs to develop and maintain a strong American merchant marine for commerce and national defense.
  • B. Merchant Marine Act of 1970
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is a U.S. federal law that updated and expanded national maritime policy, including shipbuilding and fleet modernization programs, to strengthen the American merchant marine.
  • C. Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947
    The Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 is a U.S. federal law that clarified and limited employers’ liability for compensating workers’ preliminary and postliminary activities under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • D. Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917
    The Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917 was a World War I-era U.S. law that granted the federal government broad powers to regulate the production, distribution, and pricing of food and fuel to support the war effort and prevent hoarding and profiteering.
  • E. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
    The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was a 1930 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties, widely blamed for worsening international trade tensions and deepening the Great Depression.
  • 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: Shipping Act of 1916
Triple: [Merchant Marine Act of 1936, relatedTo, Shipping Act of 1916]
Generated description
The Shipping Act of 1916 was a foundational U.S. maritime law that established federal regulation of ocean shipping practices and created the United States Shipping Board to oversee fair competition and rates in international trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shipping Act of 1916
Target entity description: The Shipping Act of 1916 was a foundational U.S. maritime law that established federal regulation of ocean shipping practices and created the United States Shipping Board to oversee fair competition and rates in international trade.
  • A. Merchant Marine Act of 1936
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is a U.S. federal law that established policies and programs to develop and maintain a strong American merchant marine for commerce and national defense.
  • B. Merchant Marine Act of 1970
    The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is a U.S. federal law that updated and expanded national maritime policy, including shipbuilding and fleet modernization programs, to strengthen the American merchant marine.
  • C. Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947
    The Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 is a U.S. federal law that clarified and limited employers’ liability for compensating workers’ preliminary and postliminary activities under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • D. Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917
    The Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917 was a World War I-era U.S. law that granted the federal government broad powers to regulate the production, distribution, and pricing of food and fuel to support the war effort and prevent hoarding and profiteering.
  • E. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
    The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was a 1930 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties, widely blamed for worsening international trade tensions and deepening the Great Depression.
  • 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_69a2573508588190b522c2476d91acfe completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c6e6fbc8190a8744e193df513e8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a35b636810819085f6c4e658ee578a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a35cd77cf881908bbde3b6bcbd5fa8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a35daaf914819096033b4e95fd3317 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.