Triple

T11996513
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rocky Mountain Fur Company E285543 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object James Beckwourth
James Beckwourth was a 19th-century African American mountain man, fur trapper, explorer, and scout known for his role in the American West and for discovering Beckwourth Pass in the Sierra Nevada.
E961346 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: James Beckwourth | Statement: [Rocky Mountain Fur Company, employed, James Beckwourth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Beckwourth
Context triple: [Rocky Mountain Fur Company, employed, James Beckwourth]
  • A. Jim Bridger
    Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
  • B. Jedediah Smith
    Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
  • C. Henry Weber (trapper)
    Henry Weber was a 19th-century trapper and frontiersman after whom Utah’s Weber River is named.
  • D. Zebulon Pike
    Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
  • E. Peter Skene Ogden
    Peter Skene Ogden was a 19th-century Canadian fur trader and explorer for the Hudson’s Bay Company, known for his extensive expeditions throughout the Pacific Northwest and the Intermountain West.
  • 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: James Beckwourth
Triple: [Rocky Mountain Fur Company, employed, James Beckwourth]
Generated description
James Beckwourth was a 19th-century African American mountain man, fur trapper, explorer, and scout known for his role in the American West and for discovering Beckwourth Pass in the Sierra Nevada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Beckwourth
Target entity description: James Beckwourth was a 19th-century African American mountain man, fur trapper, explorer, and scout known for his role in the American West and for discovering Beckwourth Pass in the Sierra Nevada.
  • A. Jim Bridger
    Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
  • B. Jedediah Smith
    Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
  • C. Henry Weber (trapper)
    Henry Weber was a 19th-century trapper and frontiersman after whom Utah’s Weber River is named.
  • D. Zebulon Pike
    Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
  • E. Peter Skene Ogden
    Peter Skene Ogden was a 19th-century Canadian fur trader and explorer for the Hudson’s Bay Company, known for his extensive expeditions throughout the Pacific Northwest and the Intermountain West.
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903c172788190b92042e9d10a48bf completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f49d183ee881908f1c0ca4562344a9 completed May 1, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f53d8ec5448190b303624887f7fa05 completed May 1, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f564b826ec819098906cf735e45093 completed May 2, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.