Triple
T2021815
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. |
E44120
|
entity |
| Predicate | areaOfActivity |
P1164
|
FINISHED |
| Object | New England maritime trade |
E163784
|
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: New England maritime trade | Statement: [Nathaniel Hathorne Sr., areaOfActivity, New England maritime trade]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New England maritime trade Context triple: [Nathaniel Hathorne Sr., areaOfActivity, New England maritime trade]
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A.
New England textile industry
The New England textile industry was a historically significant manufacturing sector centered in the northeastern United States, known for its early adoption of mechanized textile production and its major role in the region’s economic and urban development during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Spanish galleon trade
The Spanish galleon trade was a transoceanic maritime commerce system that linked Asia, the Americas, and Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, primarily transporting silver, spices, silk, and other luxury goods across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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C.
United States maritime industry
chosen
The United States maritime industry encompasses the nation’s commercial shipping, ports, shipbuilding, and related logistics and support services that facilitate domestic and international waterborne trade.
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D.
New England rum industry
The New England rum industry was a key colonial American enterprise that distilled imported Caribbean molasses into rum, forming a central link in the Atlantic triangular trade and underpinning much of the region’s economy before the American Revolution.
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E.
Province of New England
The Province of New England was an early 17th-century English colonial territory in North America that encompassed several settlements in what is now the northeastern United States.
- 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_69a8891201bc8190aca837be6de41579 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb8efbe148190901d3650aa60408a |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:34 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae0af60fac8190bc8c8a212a422305 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 11:49 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.