Triple

T3279034
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Clarkson E68828 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African E344867 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: An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African | Statement: [Thomas Clarkson, wrote, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
Context triple: [Thomas Clarkson, wrote, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African]
  • A. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African chosen
    *An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African* is an influential 18th-century abolitionist treatise by Thomas Clarkson that exposed and condemned the transatlantic slave trade.
  • B. An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves
    An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves is an 18th-century abolitionist tract arguing for the humane treatment and moral reform of enslaved Africans within the British Empire.
  • C. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • E. Réflexions sur l’esclavage des nègres
    Réflexions sur l’esclavage des nègres is an 18th-century abolitionist treatise by Enlightenment philosopher Marquis de Condorcet that denounces the moral and political injustices of Black slavery.
  • 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_69ad859c463481909ca4be267336c290 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb0155430819097c806ee407dc1e4 completed March 8, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2f3ca2fdc81908ba4f304c63989ea completed March 12, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.