Triple

T989676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Missouri River E21358 entity
Predicate historicalRole P22 FINISHED
Object important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States
The important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States refers to the Missouri River, a major waterway that enabled migration, trade, and military movement into the American frontier.
E117632 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: important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States | Statement: [Missouri River, historicalRole, important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States
Context triple: [Missouri River, historicalRole, important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States]
  • A. First Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • B. Central Pacific Railroad historic route
    The Central Pacific Railroad historic route is the original transcontinental rail line built in the 1860s that crossed the Sierra Nevada, including through Donner Pass, to connect California with the rest of the United States.
  • C. Mormon Trail
    The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
  • D. Sierra Nevada transportation corridor
    The Sierra Nevada transportation corridor is a major east–west route across California’s Sierra Nevada mountains that carries key highway and rail lines linking the state’s Central Valley with Nevada and the broader interior West.
  • E. Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
    Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is a long-distance U.S. National Historic Trail that follows the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition across multiple states from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast.
  • 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: important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States
Triple: [Missouri River, historicalRole, important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States]
Generated description
The important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States refers to the Missouri River, a major waterway that enabled migration, trade, and military movement into the American frontier.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States
Target entity description: The important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States refers to the Missouri River, a major waterway that enabled migration, trade, and military movement into the American frontier.
  • A. First Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • B. Central Pacific Railroad historic route
    The Central Pacific Railroad historic route is the original transcontinental rail line built in the 1860s that crossed the Sierra Nevada, including through Donner Pass, to connect California with the rest of the United States.
  • C. Mormon Trail
    The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
  • D. Sierra Nevada transportation corridor
    The Sierra Nevada transportation corridor is a major east–west route across California’s Sierra Nevada mountains that carries key highway and rail lines linking the state’s Central Valley with Nevada and the broader interior West.
  • E. Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
    Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is a long-distance U.S. National Historic Trail that follows the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition across multiple states from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast.
  • 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_69a493c383dc8190a03257f22d4b4183 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4aa16f081909dcc7a7ce3fb1b64 completed March 1, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac258d9f4c8190b285455410b30575 completed March 7, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac267e4fa08190895fa6809d0decb8 completed March 7, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac271c8ad081909c1f1629e0793c40 completed March 7, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.