Triple
T2565578
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Stephen A. Douglas |
E57342
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthored |
P2389
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 |
E54193
|
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: Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 | Statement: [Stephen A. Douglas, coAuthored, Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 Context triple: [Stephen A. Douglas, coAuthored, Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854]
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A.
Kansas–Nebraska Act
chosen
The Kansas–Nebraska Act was an 1854 U.S. law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and inflamed sectional tensions by allowing settlers there to decide the legality of slavery through popular sovereignty, effectively nullifying the Missouri Compromise.
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B.
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
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C.
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an 1820 U.S. federal statute that temporarily eased sectional tensions by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in most of the remaining Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30′ parallel.
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D.
Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by granting settlers ownership of public land, typically 160 acres, if they lived on and improved it for a set period.
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E.
Annexation of Texas
The Annexation of Texas was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States, a pivotal expansionist move that heightened sectional tensions over slavery in the antebellum era.
- 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_69ab4a4ef9008190a0e6d4422b9418b7 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd35ef22c8190966612cc75f69eca |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:27 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af6562d6f08190a2be483b06a789cc |
completed | March 10, 2026, 12:27 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:48 p.m.