Triple

T35869771

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Capitalism and Slavery	`E1037187`	entity
Predicate	relatedConcept	`P37`	FINISHED
Object	Williams thesis The Williams thesis is a historical interpretation arguing that profits from the transatlantic slave trade and slavery were central to the rise of British industrial capitalism and that economic shifts later drove Britain’s abolition of the slave trade.	`E2159139`	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: Williams thesis | Statement: [Capitalism and Slavery, relatedConcept, Williams thesis]

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: Williams thesis
Triple: [Capitalism and Slavery, relatedConcept, Williams thesis]

Generated description

The Williams thesis is a historical interpretation arguing that profits from the transatlantic slave trade and slavery were central to the rise of British industrial capitalism and that economic shifts later drove Britain’s abolition of the slave trade.

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_69f76e1d279c8190843e5b64a0a12c3f`	completed	May 3, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f7a9ca6c84819097edd513a9e2da92`	completed	May 3, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a38a4ed1c788190b9d591675c4dcf26`	completed	June 22, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a38a59a0184819080e951c76a48eb0c`	completed	June 22, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a38a641d5988190b883de196f98fc71`	completed	June 22, 2026, 3:04 a.m.

Created at: May 3, 2026, 4:06 p.m.