Triple

T47125
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American South (19th and early 20th centuries) E923 entity
Predicate legalRegime P605 FINISHED
Object Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)
The Black Codes were restrictive laws enacted in the American South immediately after the Civil War to control and limit the rights, movement, and labor of newly freed African Americans, effectively preserving elements of slavery.
E1407 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War) | Statement: [American South (19th and early 20th centuries), legalRegime, Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)
Context triple: [American South (19th and early 20th centuries), legalRegime, Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)]
  • A. Reconstruction era
    The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
  • B. Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a landmark 1863 executive order during the American Civil War that declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territories to be free, transforming the war’s purpose and paving the way for abolition.
  • C. Cottonopolis
    Cottonopolis is a historical nickname for Manchester, England, reflecting its prominence as a major center of the cotton and textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Thirteenth Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment is a landmark provision to the United States Constitution that formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the country, except as punishment for a crime.
  • E. American South (19th and early 20th centuries)
    The American South in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a predominantly agrarian, racially segregated region defined by the legacy of slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow laws, with a political culture rooted in white supremacy and states’ rights.
  • 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: Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)
Triple: [American South (19th and early 20th centuries), legalRegime, Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)]
Generated description
The Black Codes were restrictive laws enacted in the American South immediately after the Civil War to control and limit the rights, movement, and labor of newly freed African Americans, effectively preserving elements of slavery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)
Target entity description: The Black Codes were restrictive laws enacted in the American South immediately after the Civil War to control and limit the rights, movement, and labor of newly freed African Americans, effectively preserving elements of slavery.
  • A. Peonage Act of 1867
    The Peonage Act of 1867 is a U.S. federal law that criminalized debt peonage and other forms of forced labor, reinforcing the abolition of slavery established by the Thirteenth Amendment.
  • B. Reconstruction era chosen
    The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
  • C. Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a landmark 1863 executive order during the American Civil War that declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territories to be free, transforming the war’s purpose and paving the way for abolition.
  • D. Cottonopolis
    Cottonopolis is a historical nickname for Manchester, England, reflecting its prominence as a major center of the cotton and textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
  • E. American Memory
    American Memory is a digital archive of historical collections from the Library of Congress, providing public access to millions of primary source materials documenting American history and culture.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: legalRegime
Context triple: [American South (19th and early 20th centuries), legalRegime, Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)]
  • A. legalSystem chosen
    Indicates the formal framework of laws, rules, and institutions that governs how legal matters are defined, interpreted, and enforced within a society or jurisdiction.
  • B. legalBasis
    Indicates the legal rule, authority, or justification under which an action, decision, or status is established or carried out.
  • C. legalContext
    Indicates that the relationship or action occurs within, is shaped by, or is relevant to a specific legal framework, proceeding, or set of legal norms.
  • D. legalForm
    Indicates the specific legal structure or organizational type under which an entity is formally constituted and recognized by law.
  • E. legalSubject
    Indicates that an entity is the bearer of legal rights, duties, or responsibilities within a legal relationship or context.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a2480baefc81909951b14058479aa2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24b1bf2c081908f20e13939b713ff completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e659ac48190a11b70a85867d784 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24eff3f0881909b46502175682d99 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2542d9b388190bcc4581c3b79aa51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a24abd07508190a83ffba5368c1c79 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.