Triple

T19763667
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pacific Fur Company E474694 entity
Predicate usedExpedition P137230 FINISHED
Object Astor overland expedition
The Astor overland expedition was an early 19th-century American venture that attempted to establish a transcontinental fur-trading route to the Pacific Northwest under the direction of John Jacob Astor.
E1393958 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: Astor overland expedition | Statement: [Pacific Fur Company, usedExpedition, Astor overland expedition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Astor overland expedition
Context triple: [Pacific Fur Company, usedExpedition, Astor overland expedition]
  • A. Forbes Expedition
    The Forbes Expedition was a 1758 British military campaign during the French and Indian War that successfully captured Fort Duquesne, securing the Ohio Country and paving the way for the founding of Pittsburgh.
  • B. Fawcett expedition party
    The Fawcett expedition party was the ill-fated early 20th-century exploration team led by British explorer Percy Fawcett that disappeared in the Amazon while searching for a supposed lost ancient city.
  • C. Second Fram Expedition
    The Second Fram Expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and significantly advanced polar geography.
  • D. Drake–Norris Expedition
    The Drake–Norris Expedition was a large but ultimately unsuccessful 1589 English naval campaign against Spain, launched shortly after the Spanish Armada in an attempt to cripple Spanish power and support Portuguese rebels.
  • E. Gaselee Expedition
    The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
  • 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: Astor overland expedition
Triple: [Pacific Fur Company, usedExpedition, Astor overland expedition]
Generated description
The Astor overland expedition was an early 19th-century American venture that attempted to establish a transcontinental fur-trading route to the Pacific Northwest under the direction of John Jacob Astor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Astor overland expedition
Target entity description: The Astor overland expedition was an early 19th-century American venture that attempted to establish a transcontinental fur-trading route to the Pacific Northwest under the direction of John Jacob Astor.
  • A. Forbes Expedition
    The Forbes Expedition was a 1758 British military campaign during the French and Indian War that successfully captured Fort Duquesne, securing the Ohio Country and paving the way for the founding of Pittsburgh.
  • B. Fawcett expedition party
    The Fawcett expedition party was the ill-fated early 20th-century exploration team led by British explorer Percy Fawcett that disappeared in the Amazon while searching for a supposed lost ancient city.
  • C. Second Fram Expedition
    The Second Fram Expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and significantly advanced polar geography.
  • D. Drake–Norris Expedition
    The Drake–Norris Expedition was a large but ultimately unsuccessful 1589 English naval campaign against Spain, launched shortly after the Spanish Armada in an attempt to cripple Spanish power and support Portuguese rebels.
  • E. Gaselee Expedition
    The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
  • 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_69d8e51a43a08190956bc6df13c91a77 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65321a35c819084556118ad4ef1ee completed April 20, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd6e35248190a53efc6f2c4eda89 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07be323d8c819091566255921e4d4d completed May 16, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bef941a08190bd4b1958afe199fa completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.