Triple

T5341244
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lewis and Clark Expedition E123948 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object John Ordway
John Ordway was a U.S. Army sergeant best known for serving as a key diarist and leader within the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
E523787 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: John Ordway | Statement: [Lewis and Clark Expedition, member, John Ordway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ordway
Context triple: [Lewis and Clark Expedition, member, John Ordway]
  • A. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • B. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • C. Robert N. Davoren
    Robert N. Davoren was a notable figure in New York City's correctional system, commemorated by having a Rikers Island jail facility named in his honor.
  • D. Herbert F. York
    Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
  • E. George E. Pugh
    George E. Pugh was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio.
  • 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: John Ordway
Triple: [Lewis and Clark Expedition, member, John Ordway]
Generated description
John Ordway was a U.S. Army sergeant best known for serving as a key diarist and leader within the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ordway
Target entity description: John Ordway was a U.S. Army sergeant best known for serving as a key diarist and leader within the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  • A. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • B. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • C. Robert N. Davoren
    Robert N. Davoren was a notable figure in New York City's correctional system, commemorated by having a Rikers Island jail facility named in his honor.
  • D. Herbert F. York
    Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
  • E. George E. Pugh
    George E. Pugh was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio.
  • 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_69bf6c457698819080b4dff35f9c9f63 completed March 22, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf6d46402c819092ec10f1a5680694 completed March 22, 2026, 4:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf6e0bc4ec8190accca31225363c12 completed March 22, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2 p.m.