Triple

T2498839
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ninian Edwards E52413 entity
Predicate practicedLawIn P2755 FINISHED
Object Illinois Territory
Illinois Territory was an early 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that preceded the state of Illinois.
 E273278 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: Illinois Territory | Statement: [Ninian Edwards, practicedLawIn, Illinois Territory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Illinois Territory
Context triple: [Ninian Edwards, practicedLawIn, Illinois Territory]
  • A. Wisconsin Territory
    Wisconsin Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from 1836 to 1848, encompassing land that would later form the states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and parts of the Dakotas.
  • B. Iowa Territory
    Iowa Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1838 to 1846 that encompassed present-day Iowa and parts of surrounding states before Iowa achieved statehood.
  • C. Michigan Territory
    Michigan Territory was an early 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that encompassed present-day Michigan and parts of surrounding states before they achieved statehood.
  • D. Indiana Territory
    Indiana Territory was a U.S. organized incorporated territory (1800–1816) in the Old Northwest that preceded the state of Indiana and originally encompassed much of the present-day Midwest.
  • E. Missouri Territory
    The Missouri Territory was a vast early-19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the central and western regions of North America that preceded the creation of several Midwestern and Great Plains states.
  • 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: Illinois Territory
Triple: [Ninian Edwards, practicedLawIn, Illinois Territory]
Generated description
Illinois Territory was an early 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that preceded the state of Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Illinois Territory
Target entity description: Illinois Territory was an early 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that preceded the state of Illinois.
  • A. Wisconsin Territory
    Wisconsin Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from 1836 to 1848, encompassing land that would later form the states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and parts of the Dakotas.
  • B. Iowa Territory
    Iowa Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1838 to 1846 that encompassed present-day Iowa and parts of surrounding states before Iowa achieved statehood.
  • C. Michigan Territory
    Michigan Territory was an early 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that encompassed present-day Michigan and parts of surrounding states before they achieved statehood.
  • D. Indiana Territory
    Indiana Territory was a U.S. organized incorporated territory (1800–1816) in the Old Northwest that preceded the state of Indiana and originally encompassed much of the present-day Midwest.
  • E. Missouri Territory
    The Missouri Territory was a vast early-19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the central and western regions of North America that preceded the creation of several Midwestern and Great Plains states.
  • 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_69ab4957b3a88190adf968ae0c1b931c completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd1ae9040819091b3ca5b98659e99 completed March 7, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af1f9ed13c81909856db636bfb2e9e completed March 9, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af23a305a48190b457b1b66779b90d completed March 9, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af240855848190947190a662745b77 completed March 9, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:46 p.m.