Triple

T590182
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Upper Mississippi Valley E17248 entity
Predicate wasExploredBy P1562 FINISHED
Object Louis Jolliet
Louis Jolliet was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer best known for his joint expedition with Jacques Marquette that mapped the Mississippi River and advanced French claims in North America.
E77359 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: Louis Jolliet | Statement: [Upper Mississippi Valley, wasExploredBy, Louis Jolliet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis Jolliet
Context triple: [Upper Mississippi Valley, wasExploredBy, Louis Jolliet]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Pierre Laclède
    Pierre Laclède was an 18th-century French fur trader and colonial entrepreneur best known for establishing the settlement that became St. Louis, Missouri.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was a French colonial administrator and explorer who played a key role in the early history of Louisiana and served multiple terms as governor of French Louisiana.
  • E. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
    Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was a French explorer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the settlement that became the city of Detroit in New France.
  • 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: Louis Jolliet
Triple: [Upper Mississippi Valley, wasExploredBy, Louis Jolliet]
Generated description
Louis Jolliet was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer best known for his joint expedition with Jacques Marquette that mapped the Mississippi River and advanced French claims in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis Jolliet
Target entity description: Louis Jolliet was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer best known for his joint expedition with Jacques Marquette that mapped the Mississippi River and advanced French claims in North America.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Pierre Laclède
    Pierre Laclède was an 18th-century French fur trader and colonial entrepreneur best known for establishing the settlement that became St. Louis, Missouri.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was a French colonial administrator and explorer who played a key role in the early history of Louisiana and served multiple terms as governor of French Louisiana.
  • E. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
    Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was a French explorer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the settlement that became the city of Detroit in New France.
  • 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_69a49d2a5f5481908bb9a71ff0f534d4 completed March 1, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a55a734f6c8190a141dafc03dd2e77 completed March 2, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a55b3c0d008190bb5fca8cb4aa6df5 completed March 2, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a55b8812648190b4b35f630f0003a0 completed March 2, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.