Triple

T525013
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Early Republic of the United States E10897 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of controversial 1798 laws passed by the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress that restricted immigration and curtailed speech critical of the government, sparking major debates over civil liberties and constitutional rights.
E65636 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: Alien and Sedition Acts | Statement: [Early Republic of the United States, hasPart, Alien and Sedition Acts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alien and Sedition Acts
Context triple: [Early Republic of the United States, hasPart, Alien and Sedition Acts]
  • A. Smith Act
    The Smith Act is a 1940 U.S. federal law that criminalized advocating the violent overthrow of the government and was widely used during the early Cold War to prosecute suspected communists.
  • B. Militia Acts of the United States
    The Militia Acts of the United States are a series of federal laws enacted in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that organized, regulated, and empowered state militias and clarified the federal government’s authority over them.
  • C. Sedition Act of 1918
    The Sedition Act of 1918 was a World War I–era U.S. law that expanded restrictions on speech by criminalizing criticism of the government, the Constitution, the military, or the war effort.
  • D. Tenure of Office Act
    The Tenure of Office Act was an 1867 U.S. federal law that restricted the president’s power to remove certain officeholders without Senate approval, and its alleged violation by President Andrew Johnson was central to his impeachment.
  • E. Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the Massachusetts colonists, especially Boston, for the Boston Tea Party, helping to spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • 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: Alien and Sedition Acts
Triple: [Early Republic of the United States, hasPart, Alien and Sedition Acts]
Generated description
The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of controversial 1798 laws passed by the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress that restricted immigration and curtailed speech critical of the government, sparking major debates over civil liberties and constitutional rights.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alien and Sedition Acts
Target entity description: The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of controversial 1798 laws passed by the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress that restricted immigration and curtailed speech critical of the government, sparking major debates over civil liberties and constitutional rights.
  • A. Smith Act
    The Smith Act is a 1940 U.S. federal law that criminalized advocating the violent overthrow of the government and was widely used during the early Cold War to prosecute suspected communists.
  • B. Militia Acts of the United States
    The Militia Acts of the United States are a series of federal laws enacted in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that organized, regulated, and empowered state militias and clarified the federal government’s authority over them.
  • C. Sedition Act of 1918
    The Sedition Act of 1918 was a World War I–era U.S. law that expanded restrictions on speech by criminalizing criticism of the government, the Constitution, the military, or the war effort.
  • D. Tenure of Office Act
    The Tenure of Office Act was an 1867 U.S. federal law that restricted the president’s power to remove certain officeholders without Senate approval, and its alleged violation by President Andrew Johnson was central to his impeachment.
  • E. Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the Massachusetts colonists, especially Boston, for the Boston Tea Party, helping to spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • 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_69a2e84b16c4819088d284c47c3a7968 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f1b7f448819087e5e7f3b37d7142 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4b23f97448190bd85a8c85d338039 completed March 1, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4b2c975ec8190bc16f146f89c3f05 completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4b343f8f88190bd011924dd485bef completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.