Triple

T5341243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lewis and Clark Expedition E123948 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Patrick Gass
Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
E512132 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: Patrick Gass | Statement: [Lewis and Clark Expedition, member, Patrick Gass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Gass
Context triple: [Lewis and Clark Expedition, member, Patrick Gass]
  • A. Zebulon Pike
    Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
  • B. George Donner
    George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
  • C. Meriwether Lewis
    Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and politician best known for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition that charted the newly acquired western territories of the United States.
  • D. Nicholas Trist
    Nicholas Trist was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for negotiating the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War.
  • E. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • 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: Patrick Gass
Triple: [Lewis and Clark Expedition, member, Patrick Gass]
Generated description
Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Gass
Target entity description: Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
  • A. Zebulon Pike
    Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
  • B. George Donner
    George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
  • C. Meriwether Lewis
    Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and politician best known for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition that charted the newly acquired western territories of the United States.
  • D. Nicholas Trist
    Nicholas Trist was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for negotiating the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War.
  • E. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • 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_69bd464b07f8819095aa76577c9829e4 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd85cb250c81908a48e4e2bbebbdb9 completed March 20, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf18c8db388190a31f55854e7370fc completed March 21, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf19c8273081908a5138e9af921ec7 completed March 21, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1a3049648190b5040e587671610a completed March 21, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2 p.m.