Triple
T22328382
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Seward family |
E551960
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWithEvent |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Alaska purchase |
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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: Alaska purchase | Statement: [Seward family, associatedWithEvent, Alaska purchase]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alaska purchase Context triple: [Seward family, associatedWithEvent, Alaska purchase]
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A.
Alaska Purchase
chosen
The Alaska Purchase was the 1867 transaction in which the United States bought the Alaska territory from the Russian Empire, significantly expanding U.S. land holdings in North America.
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B.
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was an 1803 land deal in which the United States bought a vast territory from France, doubling the nation's size and securing control of the Mississippi River region.
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C.
Gadsden Purchase agreement
The Gadsden Purchase agreement was an 1853 treaty between the United States and Mexico in which the U.S. bought a strip of land in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad and finalize the continental border.
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D.
Treaty of Cession (1867)
The Treaty of Cession (1867) was the agreement by which the Russian Empire sold Alaska to the United States, a purchase initially derided as “Seward’s Folly” but later recognized as strategically and economically significant.
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E.
Jackson Purchase
The Jackson Purchase is a region in far western Kentucky, bordered by the Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee rivers, known for its flat, fertile farmland and historical acquisition from the Chickasaw Nation in the early 19th century.
- 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_69e11e482f788190b78d1588fc26d606 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f15769fdb48190b84e0c019ab63579 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 12:57 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:42 p.m.