Triple

T547797
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Slave Trade Act 1807 E12769 entity
Predicate keySupporter P256 FINISHED
Object Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson was a leading British abolitionist whose tireless research, activism, and organizing were crucial to ending the transatlantic slave trade.
E68828 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: Thomas Clarkson | Statement: [Slave Trade Act 1807, keySupporter, Thomas Clarkson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Clarkson
Context triple: [Slave Trade Act 1807, keySupporter, Thomas Clarkson]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Thomas Fowell Buxton
    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.
  • C. Samuel Miller
    Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • D. Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
  • E. Samuel Cornish
    Samuel Cornish was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and admiral noted for his role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' 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: Thomas Clarkson
Triple: [Slave Trade Act 1807, keySupporter, Thomas Clarkson]
Generated description
Thomas Clarkson was a leading British abolitionist whose tireless research, activism, and organizing were crucial to ending the transatlantic slave trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Clarkson
Target entity description: Thomas Clarkson was a leading British abolitionist whose tireless research, activism, and organizing were crucial to ending the transatlantic slave trade.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Thomas Fowell Buxton
    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.
  • C. Samuel Miller
    Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
  • D. Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
  • E. Samuel Cornish
    Samuel Cornish was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and admiral noted for his role in major naval operations during the Seven Years' 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a498e2e8c88190a66d759ed3094e18 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e02e0c1c81908fcb5356dc2b8f97 completed March 2, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e124306c8190bce165e684507553 completed March 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e1e73b0c8190b4f050f76f8e58de completed March 2, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.