Triple

T10787507
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jean Baptiste Point du Sable E254486 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Great Lakes fur trade
The Great Lakes fur trade was a major early North American economic network in which Indigenous peoples and European traders exchanged animal pelts—especially beaver—for manufactured goods, shaping the region’s exploration, settlement, and cultural interactions.
E885907 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: Great Lakes fur trade | Statement: [Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, associatedWith, Great Lakes fur trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Lakes fur trade
Context triple: [Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, associatedWith, Great Lakes fur trade]
  • A. Atlantic fur trade
    The Atlantic fur trade was a vast early modern commercial network linking European markets with North American and other Atlantic-world regions through the exchange of animal pelts, especially beaver, for manufactured goods and other commodities.
  • B. Red River trade
    Red River trade refers to the historical commerce and transportation network along the Red River that shaped the economic and cultural development of the Ark-La-Tex region.
  • C. Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site
    Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site is a Canadian historic site and former fur trading post in Lachine, Quebec, that interprets the role of the fur trade in the development of New France and Canada.
  • D. Jesuit Relations
    Jesuit Relations is a collection of 17th-century reports and letters written by Jesuit missionaries in New France that document their evangelizing efforts and detailed observations of Indigenous peoples and the North American environment.
  • E. Beaver Wars
    The Beaver Wars were a series of 17th-century conflicts in northeastern North America in which the Iroquois Confederacy fought rival Indigenous nations and European powers to control the fur trade and expand their territory.
  • 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: Great Lakes fur trade
Triple: [Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, associatedWith, Great Lakes fur trade]
Generated description
The Great Lakes fur trade was a major early North American economic network in which Indigenous peoples and European traders exchanged animal pelts—especially beaver—for manufactured goods, shaping the region’s exploration, settlement, and cultural interactions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Lakes fur trade
Target entity description: The Great Lakes fur trade was a major early North American economic network in which Indigenous peoples and European traders exchanged animal pelts—especially beaver—for manufactured goods, shaping the region’s exploration, settlement, and cultural interactions.
  • A. Atlantic fur trade
    The Atlantic fur trade was a vast early modern commercial network linking European markets with North American and other Atlantic-world regions through the exchange of animal pelts, especially beaver, for manufactured goods and other commodities.
  • B. Red River trade
    Red River trade refers to the historical commerce and transportation network along the Red River that shaped the economic and cultural development of the Ark-La-Tex region.
  • C. Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site
    Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site is a Canadian historic site and former fur trading post in Lachine, Quebec, that interprets the role of the fur trade in the development of New France and Canada.
  • D. Jesuit Relations
    Jesuit Relations is a collection of 17th-century reports and letters written by Jesuit missionaries in New France that document their evangelizing efforts and detailed observations of Indigenous peoples and the North American environment.
  • E. Beaver Wars
    The Beaver Wars were a series of 17th-century conflicts in northeastern North America in which the Iroquois Confederacy fought rival Indigenous nations and European powers to control the fur trade and expand their territory.
  • 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_69d6aa609f008190a294200aefcb7bd5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d732d65fcc8190ab5573a861409c56 completed April 9, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de56199d088190938a72105540cf66 completed April 14, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de5eadb9448190bdf69711394e2ab7 completed April 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de607917808190922df6521d7bfb07 completed April 14, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:17 p.m.