Triple

T10726308
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vancouver Expedition E252955 entity
Predicate treatyContext P7982 FINISHED
Object Nootka Conventions
The Nootka Conventions were a series of late 18th-century agreements between Britain and Spain that resolved their rival territorial and trading claims on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
E778735 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: Nootka Conventions | Statement: [Vancouver Expedition, treatyContext, Nootka Conventions]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nootka Conventions
Context triple: [Vancouver Expedition, treatyContext, Nootka Conventions]
  • A. Nootka Crisis
    The Nootka Crisis was an 18th-century diplomatic confrontation between Britain and Spain over territorial and trading rights on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, which nearly led to war before being resolved through negotiation.
  • B. James Bay Treaty
    The James Bay Treaty, also known as Treaty 9, is a historic agreement between several First Nations in northern Ontario and the Canadian government that ceded vast traditional territories in exchange for reserves, annuities, and other promises.
  • C. Oregon Treaty of 1846
    The Oregon Treaty of 1846 was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain that peacefully settled their competing claims in the Pacific Northwest by establishing the 49th parallel as the boundary west of the Rocky Mountains.
  • D. Treaty of Neah Bay
    The Treaty of Neah Bay is an 1855 agreement between the United States and the Makah Tribe that secured Makah whaling and fishing rights in exchange for large land cessions on the Olympic Peninsula.
  • E. Convention of 1818
    The Convention of 1818 was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain that settled parts of the U.S.-Canada boundary and established joint occupation of the Oregon Country.
  • 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: Nootka Conventions
Triple: [Vancouver Expedition, treatyContext, Nootka Conventions]
Generated description
The Nootka Conventions were a series of late 18th-century agreements between Britain and Spain that resolved their rival territorial and trading claims on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nootka Conventions
Target entity description: The Nootka Conventions were a series of late 18th-century agreements between Britain and Spain that resolved their rival territorial and trading claims on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
  • A. Nootka Crisis chosen
    The Nootka Crisis was an 18th-century diplomatic confrontation between Britain and Spain over territorial and trading rights on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, which nearly led to war before being resolved through negotiation.
  • B. James Bay Treaty
    The James Bay Treaty, also known as Treaty 9, is a historic agreement between several First Nations in northern Ontario and the Canadian government that ceded vast traditional territories in exchange for reserves, annuities, and other promises.
  • C. Oregon Treaty of 1846
    The Oregon Treaty of 1846 was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain that peacefully settled their competing claims in the Pacific Northwest by establishing the 49th parallel as the boundary west of the Rocky Mountains.
  • D. Treaty of Neah Bay
    The Treaty of Neah Bay is an 1855 agreement between the United States and the Makah Tribe that secured Makah whaling and fishing rights in exchange for large land cessions on the Olympic Peninsula.
  • E. Convention of 1818
    The Convention of 1818 was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain that settled parts of the U.S.-Canada boundary and established joint occupation of the Oregon Country.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6aa5d8be481909a43218b2bfdbe95 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d70fc713f081909ba1d1b986c1fe5c completed April 9, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de2297f7a48190b194f7e611d0682b completed April 14, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de25d25474819081402b75ef7492f6 completed April 14, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de2808244c8190bdb2d4d49f30e0d7 completed April 14, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:14 p.m.