Triple

T553681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwest Passage E11895 entity
Predicate hasAlternativeRoute P11026 FINISHED
Object Northern Sea Route
The Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane along Russia’s Arctic coast that offers a shorter, ice-dependent maritime passage between Europe and Asia compared to traditional southern routes.
E11261 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Northern Sea Route | Statement: [Northwest Passage, hasAlternativeRoute, Northern Sea Route]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Sea Route
Context triple: [Northwest Passage, hasAlternativeRoute, Northern Sea Route]
  • A. Northeast Passage
    The Northeast Passage is a sea route along the northern coast of Eurasia, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via Arctic waters and historically sought as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
  • B. Northwest Passage
    The Northwest Passage is a historically significant sea route through the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and long sought by explorers as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
  • C. Fram Strait
    Fram Strait is the deep, wide passage between Greenland and Svalbard that serves as the main gateway for water and sea ice exchange between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic.
  • D. North Sea
    The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, known for its major shipping routes, rich fishing grounds, and offshore oil and gas reserves.
  • E. Barents Sea
    The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, known for its rich fisheries, petroleum resources, and strategic geopolitical importance.
  • 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: Northern Sea Route
Triple: [Northwest Passage, hasAlternativeRoute, Northern Sea Route]
Generated description
The Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane along Russia’s Arctic coast that offers a shorter, ice-dependent maritime passage between Europe and Asia compared to traditional southern routes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Sea Route
Target entity description: The Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane along Russia’s Arctic coast that offers a shorter, ice-dependent maritime passage between Europe and Asia compared to traditional southern routes.
  • A. Northeast Passage chosen
    The Northeast Passage is a sea route along the northern coast of Eurasia, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via Arctic waters and historically sought as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
  • B. Northwest Passage
    The Northwest Passage is a historically significant sea route through the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and long sought by explorers as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
  • C. Fram Strait
    Fram Strait is the deep, wide passage between Greenland and Svalbard that serves as the main gateway for water and sea ice exchange between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic.
  • D. North Sea
    The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, known for its major shipping routes, rich fishing grounds, and offshore oil and gas reserves.
  • E. Barents Sea
    The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, known for its rich fisheries, petroleum resources, and strategic geopolitical importance.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasAlternativeRoute
Context triple: [Northwest Passage, hasAlternativeRoute, Northern Sea Route]
  • A. hasEasiestRoute
    Indicates that one entity provides or represents the simplest or least difficult route or path to reach another entity or destination.
  • B. hasTransportRoute chosen
    Indicates that there exists a designated transportation connection or route linking one entity to another.
  • C. hasApproachRoad
    Indicates that one entity is connected to or accessed by another entity via an approach road leading to it.
  • D. hasRouteDirection
    Indicates that a specified route is associated with a particular travel direction (e.g., inbound, outbound, northbound).
  • E. avoidsRoute
    Indicates that an entity deliberately does not use or travel along a particular route.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a4e632e7c48190b211f7fcc4903dea completed March 2, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e6cfdbf48190814dfb9d2bd8dbf5 completed March 2, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e79f2a8881909210998edba8a2a8 completed March 2, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a494bc1f8c8190904356f3a8e801de completed March 1, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.