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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.