Triple

T351359
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Congress of the Confederation E7448 entity
Predicate significantDocument P1695 FINISHED
Object Land Ordinance of 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was a foundational U.S. law that established the systematic surveying, division, and sale of western lands, shaping the grid-based layout of much of the United States.
E45008 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: Land Ordinance of 1785 | Statement: [Congress of the Confederation, significantDocument, Land Ordinance of 1785]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Land Ordinance of 1785
Context triple: [Congress of the Confederation, significantDocument, Land Ordinance of 1785]
  • A. Northwest Ordinance
    The Northwest Ordinance was a 1787 act of the U.S. Congress that established the process for governing and admitting new states from the Northwest Territory, setting important precedents for westward expansion and the prohibition of slavery in that region.
  • B. Residence Act
    The Residence Act was a 1790 law passed by the U.S. Congress that authorized the establishment of a permanent national capital along the Potomac River, leading to the creation of Washington, D.C.
  • C. Funding Act of 1790
    The Funding Act of 1790 was a key early U.S. federal law, championed by Alexander Hamilton, that consolidated and refinanced Revolutionary War debts to establish the credit of the new national government.
  • D. District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801
    The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 was a U.S. federal law that formally organized the District of Columbia under direct congressional control, removing it from the jurisdiction of Maryland and Virginia and establishing its unique federal status.
  • E. Nevada land survey system
    The Nevada land survey system is a cadastral framework used to define and organize land boundaries and property descriptions across the state of Nevada.
  • 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: Land Ordinance of 1785
Triple: [Congress of the Confederation, significantDocument, Land Ordinance of 1785]
Generated description
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was a foundational U.S. law that established the systematic surveying, division, and sale of western lands, shaping the grid-based layout of much of the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Land Ordinance of 1785
Target entity description: The Land Ordinance of 1785 was a foundational U.S. law that established the systematic surveying, division, and sale of western lands, shaping the grid-based layout of much of the United States.
  • A. Northwest Ordinance
    The Northwest Ordinance was a 1787 act of the U.S. Congress that established the process for governing and admitting new states from the Northwest Territory, setting important precedents for westward expansion and the prohibition of slavery in that region.
  • B. Residence Act
    The Residence Act was a 1790 law passed by the U.S. Congress that authorized the establishment of a permanent national capital along the Potomac River, leading to the creation of Washington, D.C.
  • C. Funding Act of 1790
    The Funding Act of 1790 was a key early U.S. federal law, championed by Alexander Hamilton, that consolidated and refinanced Revolutionary War debts to establish the credit of the new national government.
  • D. District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801
    The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 was a U.S. federal law that formally organized the District of Columbia under direct congressional control, removing it from the jurisdiction of Maryland and Virginia and establishing its unique federal status.
  • E. Nevada land survey system
    The Nevada land survey system is a cadastral framework used to define and organize land boundaries and property descriptions across the state of Nevada.
  • 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_69a2e7e696948190bebc966535995e45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee043fac8190af72291c04761687 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e0165b6481909345301df3f2144d completed March 1, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e07452388190a8162c327c76185b completed March 1, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e17d43f4819081500e106d3973e9 completed March 1, 2026, 6:49 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.