Triple

T553664
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwest Passage E11895 entity
Predicate exploredBy P1562 FINISHED
Object Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-Canadian explorer famed for leading overland expeditions across North America, including the first recorded transcontinental journey to the Pacific north of Mexico.
E73882 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: Alexander Mackenzie | Statement: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, Alexander Mackenzie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Mackenzie
Context triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, Alexander Mackenzie]
  • A. George Vancouver
    George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Jacques Marquette
    Jacques Marquette was a 17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer known for his expeditions in the Great Lakes region and along the Mississippi River.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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: Alexander Mackenzie
Triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, Alexander Mackenzie]
Generated description
Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-Canadian explorer famed for leading overland expeditions across North America, including the first recorded transcontinental journey to the Pacific north of Mexico.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Mackenzie
Target entity description: Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-Canadian explorer famed for leading overland expeditions across North America, including the first recorded transcontinental journey to the Pacific north of Mexico.
  • A. George Vancouver
    George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Jacques Marquette
    Jacques Marquette was a 17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer known for his expeditions in the Great Lakes region and along the Mississippi River.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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_69a5154fa9b48190be235b95548bbb94 completed March 2, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a515d673e08190bf66072a20c5b912 completed March 2, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5168e76448190aec260b3b9b4bdc6 completed March 2, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.