Triple

T553663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwest Passage E11895 entity
Predicate exploredBy P1562 FINISHED
Object Vitus Bering
Vitus Bering was an 18th-century Danish-born explorer in Russian service, best known for leading expeditions that charted parts of the Arctic and North Pacific and helped clarify the separation between Asia and North America.
E73720 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: Vitus Bering | Statement: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, Vitus Bering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vitus Bering
Context triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, Vitus Bering]
  • A. Jacob Roggeveen
    Jacob Roggeveen was an 18th-century Dutch explorer best known for leading the expedition that first recorded European contact with Easter Island.
  • B. Abel Tasman
    Abel Tasman was a 17th-century Dutch seafarer and explorer best known for being the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Yevgeny Vuchetich
    Yevgeny Vuchetich was a prominent Soviet sculptor and monumentalist best known for his grand World War II memorials, including the iconic "The Motherland Calls" statue.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Vitus Bering
Triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, Vitus Bering]
Generated description
Vitus Bering was an 18th-century Danish-born explorer in Russian service, best known for leading expeditions that charted parts of the Arctic and North Pacific and helped clarify the separation between Asia and North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vitus Bering
Target entity description: Vitus Bering was an 18th-century Danish-born explorer in Russian service, best known for leading expeditions that charted parts of the Arctic and North Pacific and helped clarify the separation between Asia and North America.
  • A. Jacob Roggeveen
    Jacob Roggeveen was an 18th-century Dutch explorer best known for leading the expedition that first recorded European contact with Easter Island.
  • B. Abel Tasman
    Abel Tasman was a 17th-century Dutch seafarer and explorer best known for being the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Yevgeny Vuchetich
    Yevgeny Vuchetich was a prominent Soviet sculptor and monumentalist best known for his grand World War II memorials, including the iconic "The Motherland Calls" statue.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a51035ebc48190b51f2148cb51a20f completed March 2, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a511f9da608190b276298b44a0d93e completed March 2, 2026, 4:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5127183548190a9c4dc153456490a completed March 2, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.