Triple

T553657
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwest Passage E11895 entity
Predicate exploredBy P1562 FINISHED
Object William Baffin
William Baffin was a 17th-century English navigator and explorer renowned for his Arctic voyages and detailed mapping of the Canadian Arctic, including the bay that now bears his name.
E71295 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: William Baffin | Statement: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, William Baffin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Baffin
Context triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, William Baffin]
  • A. Martin Frobisher
    Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
  • B. Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator of the early 17th century best known for his voyages in search of a northwest passage and for lending his name to the Hudson River and Hudson Bay.
  • C. John Cabot
    John Cabot was an Italian-born navigator and explorer, sailing under the English flag, best known for his late 15th-century voyages to North America that helped lay the groundwork for England’s claims in the New World.
  • D. Robert Bylot
    Robert Bylot was a 17th-century English Arctic explorer and navigator known for his key role in early voyages searching for the Northwest Passage.
  • E. Willem Barentsz
    Willem Barentsz was a Dutch navigator and explorer best known for his late 16th-century Arctic voyages in search of a Northeast Passage, during which he extensively charted regions around Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen.
  • 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: William Baffin
Triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, William Baffin]
Generated description
William Baffin was a 17th-century English navigator and explorer renowned for his Arctic voyages and detailed mapping of the Canadian Arctic, including the bay that now bears his name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Baffin
Target entity description: William Baffin was a 17th-century English navigator and explorer renowned for his Arctic voyages and detailed mapping of the Canadian Arctic, including the bay that now bears his name.
  • A. Martin Frobisher
    Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
  • B. Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator of the early 17th century best known for his voyages in search of a northwest passage and for lending his name to the Hudson River and Hudson Bay.
  • C. John Cabot
    John Cabot was an Italian-born navigator and explorer, sailing under the English flag, best known for his late 15th-century voyages to North America that helped lay the groundwork for England’s claims in the New World.
  • D. Robert Bylot
    Robert Bylot was a 17th-century English Arctic explorer and navigator known for his key role in early voyages searching for the Northwest Passage.
  • E. Willem Barentsz
    Willem Barentsz was a Dutch navigator and explorer best known for his late 16th-century Arctic voyages in search of a Northeast Passage, during which he extensively charted regions around Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4991b296481908cf27e1d1ec67052 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4fc7dea048190a5a1472825f6d747 completed March 2, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4fcf4f4048190ae7ec93774c292be completed March 2, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4fd51f2608190b7835e7ba0d78adb completed March 2, 2026, 3 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.