Triple

T643511
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hudson's Bay Company E16791 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Médard des Groseilliers
Médard des Groseilliers was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader whose ventures in North America helped open up the Canadian interior to European commerce and colonization.
E86881 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: Médard des Groseilliers | Statement: [Hudson's Bay Company, foundedBy, Médard des Groseilliers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Médard des Groseilliers
Context triple: [Hudson's Bay Company, foundedBy, Médard des Groseilliers]
  • A. Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
    Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut was a 17th-century French explorer and soldier known for his expeditions in the Great Lakes region of North America and for being the namesake of the city of Duluth, Minnesota.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Antoine-Claude Briasson
    Antoine-Claude Briasson was an 18th-century French printer-publisher best known for being one of the principal publishers of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie.
  • D. Martial Hebert
    Martial Hebert is a prominent computer scientist and roboticist known for his work in computer vision and autonomous systems, and for serving as a leading faculty member and former director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.
  • E. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
    Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville was a French-Canadian explorer, naval officer, and soldier renowned for his campaigns against the English in North America and for helping to establish French Louisiana.
  • 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: Médard des Groseilliers
Triple: [Hudson's Bay Company, foundedBy, Médard des Groseilliers]
Generated description
Médard des Groseilliers was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader whose ventures in North America helped open up the Canadian interior to European commerce and colonization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Médard des Groseilliers
Target entity description: Médard des Groseilliers was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader whose ventures in North America helped open up the Canadian interior to European commerce and colonization.
  • A. Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
    Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut was a 17th-century French explorer and soldier known for his expeditions in the Great Lakes region of North America and for being the namesake of the city of Duluth, Minnesota.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Antoine-Claude Briasson
    Antoine-Claude Briasson was an 18th-century French printer-publisher best known for being one of the principal publishers of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie.
  • D. Martial Hebert
    Martial Hebert is a prominent computer scientist and roboticist known for his work in computer vision and autonomous systems, and for serving as a leading faculty member and former director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.
  • E. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
    Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville was a French-Canadian explorer, naval officer, and soldier renowned for his campaigns against the English in North America and for helping to establish French Louisiana.
  • 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_69a63742d8a8819087c7c2fa2430da75 completed March 3, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a637ef099c8190a23f59a39e4e110a completed March 3, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a63c075f988190aa9f7073b44fb97b completed March 3, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.