Triple

T588460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Narrows E17212 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano was a 16th-century Italian explorer best known for being the first European to extensively explore the Atlantic coast of North America, including the area around present-day New York Harbor.
E76838 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: Giovanni da Verrazzano | Statement: [The Narrows, namedAfter, Giovanni da Verrazzano]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Giovanni da Verrazzano
Context triple: [The Narrows, namedAfter, Giovanni da Verrazzano]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Samuel de Champlain
    Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and cartographer known as the "Father of New France" for founding Quebec City and extensively mapping northeastern North America in the early 17th century.
  • D. 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.
  • 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: Giovanni da Verrazzano
Triple: [The Narrows, namedAfter, Giovanni da Verrazzano]
Generated description
Giovanni da Verrazzano was a 16th-century Italian explorer best known for being the first European to extensively explore the Atlantic coast of North America, including the area around present-day New York Harbor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Giovanni da Verrazzano
Target entity description: Giovanni da Verrazzano was a 16th-century Italian explorer best known for being the first European to extensively explore the Atlantic coast of North America, including the area around present-day New York Harbor.
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Samuel de Champlain
    Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and cartographer known as the "Father of New France" for founding Quebec City and extensively mapping northeastern North America in the early 17th century.
  • D. 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.
  • 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_69a49379d09c8190ac7e00b24e2810b1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b9d1e68819096a9b5e7b2e83d6e completed March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a55546c93081909bf2fdd0144ae327 completed March 2, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a555f4117481908b3af9d2ff2b79be completed March 2, 2026, 9:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a55681af748190a295f60be4a8ff8f completed March 2, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.