Triple

T794841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chester A. Arthur E16994 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was an 1883 U.S. federal law that established a merit-based system for government employment, reducing patronage and the spoils system in the civil service.
E94785 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: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act | Statement: [Chester A. Arthur, knownFor, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Context triple: [Chester A. Arthur, knownFor, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
    The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was a 1933 Nazi statute that purged Jews and political opponents from Germany’s civil service, marking an early legal step in the regime’s systematic persecution and exclusion policies.
  • C. Wagner–Steagall Act
    The Wagner–Steagall Act was a landmark 1937 U.S. federal law that created a permanent public housing program aimed at providing decent, affordable housing for low-income families.
  • D. Judiciary Act of 1870
    The Judiciary Act of 1870 is a U.S. federal law that created the Department of Justice and centralized federal law enforcement and legal representation under the Attorney General.
  • E. Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
    The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 is a landmark U.S. federal law that centralized the national budgeting process in the executive branch and established modern mechanisms for federal budget preparation and oversight.
  • 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: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Triple: [Chester A. Arthur, knownFor, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]
Generated description
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was an 1883 U.S. federal law that established a merit-based system for government employment, reducing patronage and the spoils system in the civil service.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Target entity description: The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was an 1883 U.S. federal law that established a merit-based system for government employment, reducing patronage and the spoils system in the civil service.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
    The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was a 1933 Nazi statute that purged Jews and political opponents from Germany’s civil service, marking an early legal step in the regime’s systematic persecution and exclusion policies.
  • C. Wagner–Steagall Act
    The Wagner–Steagall Act was a landmark 1937 U.S. federal law that created a permanent public housing program aimed at providing decent, affordable housing for low-income families.
  • D. Judiciary Act of 1870
    The Judiciary Act of 1870 is a U.S. federal law that created the Department of Justice and centralized federal law enforcement and legal representation under the Attorney General.
  • E. Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
    The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 is a landmark U.S. federal law that centralized the national budgeting process in the executive branch and established modern mechanisms for federal budget preparation and oversight.
  • 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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a7b04cd8819092e2fd7ba4df8672 completed March 1, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a67effd3b481909036bdc43d7b909f completed March 3, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a67fd11a5081909d068eabe31b2187 completed March 3, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a680bae34481909255d07f325d97d4 completed March 3, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.