Triple

T4338261
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Pacific Railroad Museum E97514 entity
Predicate hasSubject P450 FINISHED
Object American Westward expansion E6881 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: American Westward expansion | Statement: [Union Pacific Railroad Museum, hasSubject, American Westward expansion]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Westward expansion
Context triple: [Union Pacific Railroad Museum, hasSubject, American Westward expansion]
  • A. United States territorial expansion
    United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
  • B. Oregon territorial period
    The Oregon territorial period was the era from 1848 to 1859 when the region that would become the state of Oregon was governed as a U.S. territory with its own appointed and elected officials.
  • C. Old West chosen
    The Old West refers to the 19th-century American frontier era characterized by westward expansion, cowboys, lawlessness, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
  • D. Anglo-American colonization of Texas
    Anglo-American colonization of Texas was the early 19th-century process by which settlers from the United States, led by empresarios like Stephen F. Austin, established Anglo communities in Mexican Texas, laying the groundwork for Texas independence.
  • E. Illinois frontier
    The Illinois frontier was the sparsely settled, contested border region of early Illinois where settlers, Native American nations, and military forces frequently clashed during westward expansion.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69b3454662a481908fbcd0bbfaa3a0a4 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3516dffb48190878f81ffe71a5e82 completed March 12, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5d0af82888190bed294bdec942f4a completed March 14, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:14 p.m.