Triple

T643510
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hudson's Bay Company E16791 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Pierre-Esprit Radisson was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer and fur trader whose ventures in North America helped lay the foundations for British commercial expansion through the Hudson Bay region.
E80312 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: Pierre-Esprit Radisson | Statement: [Hudson's Bay Company, foundedBy, Pierre-Esprit Radisson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Context triple: [Hudson's Bay Company, foundedBy, Pierre-Esprit Radisson]
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve
    Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve was a 17th-century French military officer and colonial leader best known as the founder and first governor of Montreal in New France.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Frederick Tudor
    Frederick Tudor was a 19th-century American entrepreneur known as the "Ice King" for pioneering the international ice trade.
  • 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: Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Triple: [Hudson's Bay Company, foundedBy, Pierre-Esprit Radisson]
Generated description
Pierre-Esprit Radisson was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer and fur trader whose ventures in North America helped lay the foundations for British commercial expansion through the Hudson Bay region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Target entity description: Pierre-Esprit Radisson was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer and fur trader whose ventures in North America helped lay the foundations for British commercial expansion through the Hudson Bay region.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve
    Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve was a 17th-century French military officer and colonial leader best known as the founder and first governor of Montreal in New France.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Frederick Tudor
    Frederick Tudor was a 19th-century American entrepreneur known as the "Ice King" for pioneering the international ice trade.
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f18216081908331aa12dac40214 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5778faa788190ac246d6cd6b983f4 completed March 2, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a57806b6148190a56a1ed535bb3a65 completed March 2, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5785996748190ae7761d190bbd35f completed March 2, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.