Triple

T844109
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benjamin Harrison E18239 entity
Predicate signed P173 FINISHED
Object McKinley Tariff
The McKinley Tariff was an 1890 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, becoming one of the most controversial high-tariff measures of the late 19th century.
E99531 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: McKinley Tariff | Statement: [Benjamin Harrison, signed, McKinley Tariff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McKinley Tariff
Context triple: [Benjamin Harrison, signed, McKinley Tariff]
  • A. Fordney–McCumber Tariff
    The Fordney–McCumber Tariff was a 1922 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties to protect American industry and agriculture during the post–World War I era.
  • B. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
    The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was a 1930 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties, widely blamed for worsening international trade tensions and deepening the Great Depression.
  • C. Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846
    Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846 refers to George M. Dallas’s politically consequential decision as U.S. vice president to cast the tie-breaking Senate vote that secured passage of the low-tariff Walker Tariff, reshaping mid-19th-century American trade policy.
  • D. Bland–Allison Act
    The Bland–Allison Act was an 1878 U.S. law that required the federal government to purchase and coin a limited amount of silver each month, partially restoring bimetallism after the “Crime of 1873.”
  • E. Tariff Act of 1790
    The Tariff Act of 1790 was an early U.S. federal law that established import duties to fund the national government and support maritime enforcement, laying groundwork for the young nation's customs and revenue system.
  • 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: McKinley Tariff
Triple: [Benjamin Harrison, signed, McKinley Tariff]
Generated description
The McKinley Tariff was an 1890 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, becoming one of the most controversial high-tariff measures of the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McKinley Tariff
Target entity description: The McKinley Tariff was an 1890 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, becoming one of the most controversial high-tariff measures of the late 19th century.
  • A. Fordney–McCumber Tariff
    The Fordney–McCumber Tariff was a 1922 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties to protect American industry and agriculture during the post–World War I era.
  • B. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
    The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was a 1930 U.S. law that sharply raised import duties, widely blamed for worsening international trade tensions and deepening the Great Depression.
  • C. Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846
    Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846 refers to George M. Dallas’s politically consequential decision as U.S. vice president to cast the tie-breaking Senate vote that secured passage of the low-tariff Walker Tariff, reshaping mid-19th-century American trade policy.
  • D. Bland–Allison Act
    The Bland–Allison Act was an 1878 U.S. law that required the federal government to purchase and coin a limited amount of silver each month, partially restoring bimetallism after the “Crime of 1873.”
  • E. Tariff Act of 1790
    The Tariff Act of 1790 was an early U.S. federal law that established import duties to fund the national government and support maritime enforcement, laying groundwork for the young nation's customs and revenue system.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac07fedc8190ab05595f25c1792f completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7929c8c9c8190a0279f347ab64765 completed March 4, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a792fcb75881908562b79005d62b3b completed March 4, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a793fd988481908ad3c6d2cd46026d completed March 4, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.