Triple

T3767340
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alaska was economically worthless E82710 entity
Predicate relatedToConcept P37 FINISHED
Object Seward's Folly
Seward's Folly is the derisive nickname Americans gave to the 1867 U.S. purchase of Alaska, reflecting widespread belief at the time that the remote territory was a useless, frozen wasteland.
E386064 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: Seward's Folly | Statement: [Alaska was economically worthless, relatedToConcept, Seward's Folly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seward's Folly
Context triple: [Alaska was economically worthless, relatedToConcept, Seward's Folly]
  • A. The Spoils
    The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
  • B. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • C. The Quigley
    The Quigley is a notorious water obstacle course at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, known for its muddy trenches, submerged passages, and physically demanding conditions.
  • D. La Unión
    La Unión is a Chilean city in the Los Ríos Region known for its agricultural activities, dairy production, and role as a local commercial center.
  • E. The Magnificent Yankee
    The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • 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: Seward's Folly
Triple: [Alaska was economically worthless, relatedToConcept, Seward's Folly]
Generated description
Seward's Folly is the derisive nickname Americans gave to the 1867 U.S. purchase of Alaska, reflecting widespread belief at the time that the remote territory was a useless, frozen wasteland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seward's Folly
Target entity description: Seward's Folly is the derisive nickname Americans gave to the 1867 U.S. purchase of Alaska, reflecting widespread belief at the time that the remote territory was a useless, frozen wasteland.
  • A. The Spoils
    The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
  • B. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • C. The Quigley
    The Quigley is a notorious water obstacle course at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, known for its muddy trenches, submerged passages, and physically demanding conditions.
  • D. La Unión
    La Unión is a Chilean city in the Los Ríos Region known for its agricultural activities, dairy production, and role as a local commercial center.
  • E. The Magnificent Yankee
    The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • 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_69ad8b207b0081909d2b48843fbd8795 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcc2bdf6c819088d3c6ace83ca5ea completed March 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4e5251d2481909f692937271a8013 completed March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4e73b64388190b1f32a9ec498bf11 completed March 14, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4e78a5dcc8190b25c9a35728bfb94 completed March 14, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:35 p.m.