Triple
T11996552
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Fitzgerald |
E285544
|
entity |
| Predicate | fieldOfWork |
P3
|
FINISHED |
| Object | North American fur trade |
E885907
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: North American fur trade | Statement: [John Fitzgerald, fieldOfWork, North American fur trade]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North American fur trade Context triple: [John Fitzgerald, fieldOfWork, North American fur trade]
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A.
Atlantic fur trade
The Atlantic fur trade was a vast early modern commercial network linking European markets with North American and other Atlantic-world regions through the exchange of animal pelts, especially beaver, for manufactured goods and other commodities.
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B.
Great Lakes fur trade
chosen
The Great Lakes fur trade was a major early North American economic network in which Indigenous peoples and European traders exchanged animal pelts—especially beaver—for manufactured goods, shaping the region’s exploration, settlement, and cultural interactions.
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C.
Red River trade
Red River trade refers to the historical commerce and transportation network along the Red River that shaped the economic and cultural development of the Ark-La-Tex region.
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D.
Jesuit Relations
Jesuit Relations is a collection of 17th-century reports and letters written by Jesuit missionaries in New France that document their evangelizing efforts and detailed observations of Indigenous peoples and the North American environment.
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E.
Beaver Wars
The Beaver Wars were a series of 17th-century conflicts in northeastern North America in which the Iroquois Confederacy fought rival Indigenous nations and European powers to control the fur trade and expand their territory.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69f47281ea7c819081921bc125f8895f |
completed | May 1, 2026, 9:29 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.