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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.