Triple
T10957398
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Columbia District (Hudson's Bay Company) |
E258880
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | North West Company Columbia Department |
E162838
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: North West Company Columbia Department | Statement: [Columbia District (Hudson's Bay Company), precededBy, North West Company Columbia Department]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North West Company Columbia Department Context triple: [Columbia District (Hudson's Bay Company), precededBy, North West Company Columbia Department]
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A.
North West Company
chosen
North West Company was a major Canadian fur trading enterprise that rivaled the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Columbia District (by the Hudson's Bay Company)
Columbia District (by the Hudson's Bay Company) was the fur-trading administrative region that the company established in the Pacific Northwest during the early 19th century, encompassing much of what was then called the Oregon Country.
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C.
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company is a historic Canadian retail and fur-trading enterprise founded in 1670 that became one of the oldest and most influential commercial institutions in North America.
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D.
The Manhattan Company
The Manhattan Company was a historic New York financial institution founded in 1799 that evolved through mergers into part of what became Chase Manhattan Bank.
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E.
Pacific Fur Company
The Pacific Fur Company was an early 19th-century American fur-trading enterprise backed by John Jacob Astor that played a key role in the commercial and territorial expansion of the Pacific Northwest.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aa88500c819097d7032ca578e74f |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d771260e9881909401a7a7466e1b8a |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:28 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e2d7439204819092fcd061a161fd7b |
completed | April 18, 2026, 12:58 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.