Triple

T20240770
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Louisiana Separate Car Act E498280 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Separate Car Act
The Separate Car Act was a Louisiana law enacted in 1890 that mandated racially segregated railway cars, becoming historically significant as the statute challenged in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
E1419567 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: Separate Car Act | Statement: [Louisiana Separate Car Act, alsoKnownAs, Separate Car Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Separate Car Act
Context triple: [Louisiana Separate Car Act, alsoKnownAs, Separate Car Act]
  • A. Edmunds Act
    The Edmunds Act was an 1882 U.S. federal law that strengthened anti-polygamy enforcement in Utah Territory by criminalizing unlawful cohabitation and disenfranchising and disqualifying polygamists from public office.
  • B. National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966
    The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 is a landmark U.S. federal law that established nationwide vehicle safety standards and empowered the government to set and enforce regulations to reduce traffic accidents and injuries.
  • C. Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986
    The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 is a U.S. federal law that established uniform national standards for commercial driver licensing to improve highway safety and reduce accidents involving large trucks and buses.
  • D. Carriage by Road Act, 2007
    The Carriage by Road Act, 2007 is an Indian law that regulates the business and liability of common carriers transporting goods by road across the country.
  • E. Motor Carrier Act of 1980
    The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is a U.S. federal law that significantly deregulated the trucking industry, promoting increased competition and reducing federal control over motor carriers.
  • 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: Separate Car Act
Triple: [Louisiana Separate Car Act, alsoKnownAs, Separate Car Act]
Generated description
The Separate Car Act was a Louisiana law enacted in 1890 that mandated racially segregated railway cars, becoming historically significant as the statute challenged in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Separate Car Act
Target entity description: The Separate Car Act was a Louisiana law enacted in 1890 that mandated racially segregated railway cars, becoming historically significant as the statute challenged in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • A. Edmunds Act
    The Edmunds Act was an 1882 U.S. federal law that strengthened anti-polygamy enforcement in Utah Territory by criminalizing unlawful cohabitation and disenfranchising and disqualifying polygamists from public office.
  • B. National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966
    The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 is a landmark U.S. federal law that established nationwide vehicle safety standards and empowered the government to set and enforce regulations to reduce traffic accidents and injuries.
  • C. Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986
    The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 is a U.S. federal law that established uniform national standards for commercial driver licensing to improve highway safety and reduce accidents involving large trucks and buses.
  • D. Carriage by Road Act, 2007
    The Carriage by Road Act, 2007 is an Indian law that regulates the business and liability of common carriers transporting goods by road across the country.
  • E. Motor Carrier Act of 1980
    The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is a U.S. federal law that significantly deregulated the trucking industry, promoting increased competition and reducing federal control over motor carriers.
  • 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_69da6274c58c81909c646eabed6f4f30 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6716eabf48190ae4e760f472114bd completed April 20, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a084b943cd081908adc2023e684d951 completed May 16, 2026, 10:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a084c3423188190b2c29ede28115174 completed May 16, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a084d0ac2f881909be142d6b30cc9ec completed May 16, 2026, 10:55 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:40 p.m.