Triple

T1905271
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North to the Orient E37787 entity
Predicate mainSubject P3 FINISHED
Object Pacific Great Circle route
The Pacific Great Circle route is the shortest navigational path across the North Pacific Ocean commonly used by transoceanic flights and shipping between North America and East Asia.
E212739 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: Pacific Great Circle route | Statement: [North to the Orient, mainSubject, Pacific Great Circle route]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Great Circle route
Context triple: [North to the Orient, mainSubject, Pacific Great Circle route]
  • A. Paris–San Francisco
    Paris–San Francisco is a long-haul transatlantic air route linking the capital of France with the major West Coast city in the United States.
  • B. Manila–Acapulco route
    The Manila–Acapulco route was the trans-Pacific maritime corridor that linked the Spanish colonies in Asia and the Americas, enabling centuries of global trade and cultural exchange between the Philippines and Mexico.
  • C. Asia–Caribbean shipping routes
    Asia–Caribbean shipping routes are major maritime trade corridors linking ports across East and Southeast Asia with destinations in the Caribbean basin for the transport of containerized and bulk cargo.
  • D. Cape Horn sea route
    The Cape Horn sea route was the long, perilous maritime passage around the southern tip of South America that ships commonly used to reach California during the Gold Rush era.
  • E. Northeast Passage
    The Northeast Passage is a sea route along the northern coast of Eurasia, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via Arctic waters and historically sought as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
  • 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: Pacific Great Circle route
Triple: [North to the Orient, mainSubject, Pacific Great Circle route]
Generated description
The Pacific Great Circle route is the shortest navigational path across the North Pacific Ocean commonly used by transoceanic flights and shipping between North America and East Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Great Circle route
Target entity description: The Pacific Great Circle route is the shortest navigational path across the North Pacific Ocean commonly used by transoceanic flights and shipping between North America and East Asia.
  • A. Paris–San Francisco
    Paris–San Francisco is a long-haul transatlantic air route linking the capital of France with the major West Coast city in the United States.
  • B. Manila–Acapulco route
    The Manila–Acapulco route was the trans-Pacific maritime corridor that linked the Spanish colonies in Asia and the Americas, enabling centuries of global trade and cultural exchange between the Philippines and Mexico.
  • C. Asia–Caribbean shipping routes
    Asia–Caribbean shipping routes are major maritime trade corridors linking ports across East and Southeast Asia with destinations in the Caribbean basin for the transport of containerized and bulk cargo.
  • D. Cape Horn sea route
    The Cape Horn sea route was the long, perilous maritime passage around the southern tip of South America that ships commonly used to reach California during the Gold Rush era.
  • E. Northeast Passage
    The Northeast Passage is a sea route along the northern coast of Eurasia, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via Arctic waters and historically sought as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
  • 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_69a8861be7148190a680937ec451a304 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb191b710819091a5b767550fcf61 completed March 7, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeaf944c881908c5cb54bd27d6fa9 completed March 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb8b3d2c8190b13c03ce944f436a completed March 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adec123cc481908e55dfbe4f4da095 completed March 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.