Triple
T4309918
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy |
E94045
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Fowell Buxton |
E16924
|
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: Thomas Fowell Buxton | Statement: [The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy, author, Thomas Fowell Buxton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Fowell Buxton Context triple: [The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy, author, Thomas Fowell Buxton]
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A.
Thomas Fowell Buxton
chosen
Thomas Fowell Buxton was a British politician, social reformer, and leading abolitionist who played a central role in the campaign to end slavery throughout the British Empire.
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B.
William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and leading figure in the movement to abolish the transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the British Empire.
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C.
Robert Wilberforce
Robert Wilberforce was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and theologian, known for his involvement in the Oxford Movement and eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism.
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D.
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume was a prominent 19th-century Scottish physician and radical British politician known for his campaigns for parliamentary reform, economy in public spending, and civil liberties.
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E.
James Stephen
James Stephen was a prominent British lawyer, abolitionist, and colonial administrator influential in shaping early 19th-century British policy on slavery and the colonies.
- 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_69b3451886588190a3dd1305ea7c58dc |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b350d55d748190a57fabcf58782dba |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5c759b65081909b02db56febbc484 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.