Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lancaster slave trade E718481 entity
Predicate tradeRoute P3034 FINISHED
Object Lancaster–West Africa–Caribbean triangular route
The Lancaster–West Africa–Caribbean triangular route was a transatlantic slave-trading circuit in which ships from Lancaster sailed to West Africa to acquire enslaved people, transported them to the Caribbean, and returned to Britain with plantation goods.
E1813825 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: Lancaster–West Africa–Caribbean triangular route | Statement: [Lancaster slave trade, tradeRoute, Lancaster–West Africa–Caribbean triangular route]
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: Lancaster–West Africa–Caribbean triangular route
Triple: [Lancaster slave trade, tradeRoute, Lancaster–West Africa–Caribbean triangular route]
Generated description
The Lancaster–West Africa–Caribbean triangular route was a transatlantic slave-trading circuit in which ships from Lancaster sailed to West Africa to acquire enslaved people, transported them to the Caribbean, and returned to Britain with plantation goods.

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_69eff6ed5af48190be4e0adf298223e0 completed April 27, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f64c36153481908c59242da83bc499 completed May 2, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a1627d42bec819087df30f3cca1d283 completed May 26, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a1628f366d88190b10dda8b0ab63762 completed May 26, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a16297370d08190a0088aa14476bb1f completed May 26, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: April 28, 2026, 12:54 a.m.