Triple
T18338099
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Saint-Lin-Laurentides, Lower Canada |
E439325
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalNameContext |
P2834
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River | Statement: [Saint-Lin-Laurentides, Lower Canada, historicalNameContext, Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River Context triple: [Saint-Lin-Laurentides, Lower Canada, historicalNameContext, Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River]
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A.
Lower Canada
chosen
Lower Canada was a British colony along the lower Saint Lawrence River and Gulf, roughly corresponding to modern-day southern Quebec, that existed from 1791 to 1841 before being united with Upper Canada to form the Province of Canada.
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B.
Upper Canada
Upper Canada was a British colony established in 1791 in what is now southern Ontario, created to govern the predominantly English-speaking Loyalist settlements west of the Ottawa River.
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C.
colonial government of Upper Canada
The colonial government of Upper Canada was the British imperial administrative system that governed the Upper Canadian colony (now southern Ontario) from 1791 to 1841 through appointed officials and limited representative institutions.
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D.
Colony of Canada
The Colony of Canada was a British North American province formed in 1841 by uniting Upper and Lower Canada, serving as a key predecessor to the modern nation of Canada before Confederation in 1867.
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E.
Upper Country of New France (former French territory)
The Upper Country of New France was a vast, sparsely populated frontier region of the French colonial empire in North America, encompassing the Great Lakes and surrounding interior territories administered from centers like Detroit.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e50ecf3b4c81909372630ab634dd43 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:20 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.