Triple

T8883413
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isthmian Canal Commission E211465 entity
Predicate legalBasis P125 FINISHED
Object Spooner Act
The Spooner Act was a 1902 U.S. federal law that authorized the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, paving the way for the Panama Canal project.
E765391 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: Spooner Act | Statement: [Isthmian Canal Commission, legalBasis, Spooner Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spooner Act
Context triple: [Isthmian Canal Commission, legalBasis, Spooner Act]
  • A. Foraker Act
    The Foraker Act was a 1900 U.S. federal law that established civilian government in Puerto Rico following the Spanish–American War, defining the island’s political and economic relationship with the United States.
  • B. Cullom Act
    The Cullom Act was a late 19th-century U.S. federal law associated with Senator Shelby M. Cullom, best known for addressing issues of interstate commerce regulation.
  • C. Butler Act
    The Butler Act was a Tennessee state law enacted in 1925 that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools, becoming infamous as the focus of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
  • D. Dingley Act
    The Dingley Act was an 1897 U.S. tariff law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, succeeding and strengthening the earlier McKinley Tariff.
  • E. Webb–Kenyon Act
    The Webb–Kenyon Act was a 1913 U.S. federal law that strengthened state alcohol prohibition by banning the interstate shipment of liquor into dry states, playing a key role in the lead-up to national Prohibition.
  • 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: Spooner Act
Triple: [Isthmian Canal Commission, legalBasis, Spooner Act]
Generated description
The Spooner Act was a 1902 U.S. federal law that authorized the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, paving the way for the Panama Canal project.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spooner Act
Target entity description: The Spooner Act was a 1902 U.S. federal law that authorized the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, paving the way for the Panama Canal project.
  • A. Foraker Act
    The Foraker Act was a 1900 U.S. federal law that established civilian government in Puerto Rico following the Spanish–American War, defining the island’s political and economic relationship with the United States.
  • B. Cullom Act
    The Cullom Act was a late 19th-century U.S. federal law associated with Senator Shelby M. Cullom, best known for addressing issues of interstate commerce regulation.
  • C. Butler Act
    The Butler Act was a Tennessee state law enacted in 1925 that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools, becoming infamous as the focus of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
  • D. Dingley Act
    The Dingley Act was an 1897 U.S. tariff law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, succeeding and strengthening the earlier McKinley Tariff.
  • E. Webb–Kenyon Act
    The Webb–Kenyon Act was a 1913 U.S. federal law that strengthened state alcohol prohibition by banning the interstate shipment of liquor into dry states, playing a key role in the lead-up to national Prohibition.
  • 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_69ca838f9e20819096ab1f236a70381a completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc616b2d988190b923ef1e33aab787 completed April 1, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfabd254148190b5ea3d308fe96851 completed April 3, 2026, noon
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfafb878048190b311342fbd93145e completed April 3, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfb0392038819083f730a45787260b completed April 3, 2026, 12:19 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:53 p.m.