Triple

T18044214
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Time on the Cross E431729 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery is a controversial 1974 economic history study by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman that uses quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and efficiency of slavery in the American South.
E1302223 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: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery | Statement: [Time on the Cross, hasPart, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Context triple: [Time on the Cross, hasPart, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery]
  • A. The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South
    The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South is a landmark economic history study that applied quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and economic role of slavery in the pre–Civil War American South.
  • B. Capitalism and Slavery
    Capitalism and Slavery is a seminal historical study by Eric Williams that argues the rise and decline of slavery in the British Empire were fundamentally driven by economic forces tied to the development of capitalism.
  • C. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States
    Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States is an influential 19th-century abolitionist work by Theodore Dwight Weld that exposes the brutality and moral corruption of American slavery and the domestic slave trade.
  • E. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • 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: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Triple: [Time on the Cross, hasPart, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery]
Generated description
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery is a controversial 1974 economic history study by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman that uses quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and efficiency of slavery in the American South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Target entity description: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery is a controversial 1974 economic history study by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman that uses quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and efficiency of slavery in the American South.
  • A. The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South
    The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South is a landmark economic history study that applied quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and economic role of slavery in the pre–Civil War American South.
  • B. Capitalism and Slavery
    Capitalism and Slavery is a seminal historical study by Eric Williams that argues the rise and decline of slavery in the British Empire were fundamentally driven by economic forces tied to the development of capitalism.
  • C. Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
    Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States
    Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States is an influential 19th-century abolitionist work by Theodore Dwight Weld that exposes the brutality and moral corruption of American slavery and the domestic slave trade.
  • E. The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
    The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
  • 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_69d8b906482481908183315b9ecf9994 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4bff13f488190993445769551c9c2 completed April 19, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0349bb99508190ba6b1f8e4ac2b599 completed May 12, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a034b4fd4fc8190bd75aa51a8f3d2d4 completed May 12, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a034bc081d08190aa29065fdaecc5b2 completed May 12, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:25 a.m.