Triple

T319090
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Knox E7772 entity
Predicate countryOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object British America
British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
E41869 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: British America | Statement: [Henry Knox, countryOfBirth, British America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British America
Context triple: [Henry Knox, countryOfBirth, British America]
  • A. New England Colonies
    The New England Colonies were a group of British settlements in northeastern North America known for their Puritan roots, maritime economy, town-based communities, and influential role in early American history.
  • B. Dominion of New England
    The Dominion of New England was a short-lived late-17th-century administrative union imposed by the English Crown to centralize control over several New England colonies, curtailing their traditional self-governance.
  • C. Massachusetts Bay Colony
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th-century English Puritan settlement in New England that became a major political, religious, and cultural center and a foundation for the future state of Massachusetts.
  • D. 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.
  • E. New Netherland
    New Netherland was a 17th-century Dutch colonial province in North America that encompassed parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut.
  • 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: British America
Triple: [Henry Knox, countryOfBirth, British America]
Generated description
British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British America
Target entity description: British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
  • A. New England Colonies
    The New England Colonies were a group of British settlements in northeastern North America known for their Puritan roots, maritime economy, town-based communities, and influential role in early American history.
  • B. Dominion of New England
    The Dominion of New England was a short-lived late-17th-century administrative union imposed by the English Crown to centralize control over several New England colonies, curtailing their traditional self-governance.
  • C. Massachusetts Bay Colony
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th-century English Puritan settlement in New England that became a major political, religious, and cultural center and a foundation for the future state of Massachusetts.
  • D. 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.
  • E. New Netherland
    New Netherland was a 17th-century Dutch colonial province in North America that encompassed parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut.
  • 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea7edbc48190b9031bd1af48f72a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3cfe82d348190892f0aa8c352d04b completed March 1, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d090b9ac819080815afc704285ed completed March 1, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d0eb96748190aa8c47736820387c completed March 1, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.