Triple

T782549
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Sewall E16528 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph"
"The Selling of Joseph" is a 1700 pamphlet by Samuel Sewall that is considered one of the earliest anti-slavery publications in colonial New England, arguing against the moral and legal justifications for slavery.
E92983 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: early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph" | Statement: [Samuel Sewall, knownFor, early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph"
Context triple: [Samuel Sewall, knownFor, early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph"]
  • A. A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
    A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves is a mid-19th-century painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that dramatically depicts an enslaved family fleeing to Union lines during the Civil War.
  • B. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
    A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
  • C. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an 1861 autobiographical slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs that exposes the sexual exploitation and brutal realities of slavery from a Black woman’s perspective.
  • D. Slave Trade Act 1807
    The Slave Trade Act 1807 was a landmark British law that made the transatlantic slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, marking a major victory for the abolitionist movement.
  • E. Essays in the Boston Gazette
    "Essays in the Boston Gazette" is a series of influential political writings by Samuel Adams that helped galvanize colonial opposition to British rule in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
  • 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: early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph"
Triple: [Samuel Sewall, knownFor, early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph"]
Generated description
"The Selling of Joseph" is a 1700 pamphlet by Samuel Sewall that is considered one of the earliest anti-slavery publications in colonial New England, arguing against the moral and legal justifications for slavery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: early antislavery tract "The Selling of Joseph"
Target entity description: "The Selling of Joseph" is a 1700 pamphlet by Samuel Sewall that is considered one of the earliest anti-slavery publications in colonial New England, arguing against the moral and legal justifications for slavery.
  • A. A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
    A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves is a mid-19th-century painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that dramatically depicts an enslaved family fleeing to Union lines during the Civil War.
  • B. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
    A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
  • C. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an 1861 autobiographical slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs that exposes the sexual exploitation and brutal realities of slavery from a Black woman’s perspective.
  • D. Slave Trade Act 1807
    The Slave Trade Act 1807 was a landmark British law that made the transatlantic slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, marking a major victory for the abolitionist movement.
  • E. Essays in the Boston Gazette
    "Essays in the Boston Gazette" is a series of influential political writings by Samuel Adams that helped galvanize colonial opposition to British rule in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
  • 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_69a4936ad1fc81908f190208059ccf78 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a7686d0881908c2a4395059be02c completed March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a6733c2e608190962440d6ef637784 completed March 3, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a673ccc2308190a887ada146290de8 completed March 3, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a6742d7ba881909385cbc51a2ed7bd completed March 3, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.