Triple

T5623661
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 4th United States Congress E147667 entity
Predicate enactedLaw P6890 FINISHED
Object Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796)
The Land Act of 1796 was a U.S. federal law that organized the survey and sale of public lands in the Northwest Territory, shaping early American land policy and westward expansion.
E534999 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: Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796) | Statement: [4th United States Congress, enactedLaw, Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796)
Context triple: [4th United States Congress, enactedLaw, Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796)]
  • A. Land Ordinance of 1784
    The Land Ordinance of 1784 was an early U.S. law drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson that outlined a systematic process for organizing and governing western territories as they moved toward statehood.
  • B. Land Ordinance of 1785
    The Land Ordinance of 1785 was a foundational U.S. law that established the systematic surveying, division, and sale of western lands, shaping the grid-based layout of much of the United States.
  • C. Division of the Northwest Territory
    The Division of the Northwest Territory was an early 19th-century reorganization of U.S. frontier lands that carved new territorial units, including what became the Michigan Territory, out of the original Northwest Territory.
  • D. Northwest Ordinance
    The Northwest Ordinance was a 1787 act of the U.S. Congress that established the process for governing and admitting new states from the Northwest Territory, setting important precedents for westward expansion and the prohibition of slavery in that region.
  • E. Territorial legislature of the Northwest Territory
    The Territorial legislature of the Northwest Territory was the early representative governing body that created laws and managed civil affairs for the United States’ Northwest Territory before statehood.
  • 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: Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796)
Triple: [4th United States Congress, enactedLaw, Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796)]
Generated description
The Land Act of 1796 was a U.S. federal law that organized the survey and sale of public lands in the Northwest Territory, shaping early American land policy and westward expansion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio (Land Act of 1796)
Target entity description: The Land Act of 1796 was a U.S. federal law that organized the survey and sale of public lands in the Northwest Territory, shaping early American land policy and westward expansion.
  • A. Land Ordinance of 1784
    The Land Ordinance of 1784 was an early U.S. law drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson that outlined a systematic process for organizing and governing western territories as they moved toward statehood.
  • B. Land Ordinance of 1785
    The Land Ordinance of 1785 was a foundational U.S. law that established the systematic surveying, division, and sale of western lands, shaping the grid-based layout of much of the United States.
  • C. Division of the Northwest Territory
    The Division of the Northwest Territory was an early 19th-century reorganization of U.S. frontier lands that carved new territorial units, including what became the Michigan Territory, out of the original Northwest Territory.
  • D. Northwest Ordinance
    The Northwest Ordinance was a 1787 act of the U.S. Congress that established the process for governing and admitting new states from the Northwest Territory, setting important precedents for westward expansion and the prohibition of slavery in that region.
  • E. Territorial legislature of the Northwest Territory
    The Territorial legislature of the Northwest Territory was the early representative governing body that created laws and managed civil affairs for the United States’ Northwest Territory before statehood.
  • 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_69c00906f2a88190a992c66b13d606d4 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02214b4948190b71a9f59499092f6 completed March 22, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d5da9cc819097281dd6aa405e62 completed March 22, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04edaa7408190811007d27549a35d completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04ff40ce88190a9aa8886c22386e1 completed March 22, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:40 p.m.