Triple

T11055852
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spanish conquest of northern New Spain E261374 entity
Predicate location P40 FINISHED
Object northern New Spain
Northern New Spain was the vast, sparsely populated frontier region of the Spanish Empire in North America, encompassing much of what is now northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
E904983 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: northern New Spain | Statement: [Spanish conquest of northern New Spain, location, northern New Spain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northern New Spain
Context triple: [Spanish conquest of northern New Spain, location, northern New Spain]
  • A. Bajío region of New Spain
    The Bajío region of New Spain was a prosperous, densely populated agricultural and mining heartland in central Mexico that became a crucial center of social unrest and insurgent activity during the lead-up to the Mexican War of Independence.
  • B. Mexican Alta California
    Mexican Alta California was a vast northwestern province of Mexico from 1821 to 1848, encompassing much of present-day California and parts of neighboring U.S. states before its cession to the United States.
  • C. Tula Viceroyalty
    Tula Viceroyalty was an administrative division of the Russian Empire centered on the city of Tula, existing in the late 18th century as part of Catherine the Great’s regional reforms.
  • D. Nueva Galicia
    Nueva Galicia was a colonial-era province of New Spain in western Mexico, encompassing parts of present-day Jalisco, Nayarit, and surrounding regions.
  • E. Governorate of New Andalusia
    The Governorate of New Andalusia was a Spanish colonial administrative territory in northern South America during the early period of the Spanish Empire.
  • 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: northern New Spain
Triple: [Spanish conquest of northern New Spain, location, northern New Spain]
Generated description
Northern New Spain was the vast, sparsely populated frontier region of the Spanish Empire in North America, encompassing much of what is now northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northern New Spain
Target entity description: Northern New Spain was the vast, sparsely populated frontier region of the Spanish Empire in North America, encompassing much of what is now northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
  • A. Bajío region of New Spain
    The Bajío region of New Spain was a prosperous, densely populated agricultural and mining heartland in central Mexico that became a crucial center of social unrest and insurgent activity during the lead-up to the Mexican War of Independence.
  • B. Mexican Alta California
    Mexican Alta California was a vast northwestern province of Mexico from 1821 to 1848, encompassing much of present-day California and parts of neighboring U.S. states before its cession to the United States.
  • C. Tula Viceroyalty
    Tula Viceroyalty was an administrative division of the Russian Empire centered on the city of Tula, existing in the late 18th century as part of Catherine the Great’s regional reforms.
  • D. Nueva Galicia
    Nueva Galicia was a colonial-era province of New Spain in western Mexico, encompassing parts of present-day Jalisco, Nayarit, and surrounding regions.
  • E. Governorate of New Andalusia
    The Governorate of New Andalusia was a Spanish colonial administrative territory in northern South America during the early period of the Spanish Empire.
  • 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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d798a152b4819095b74a8996346077 completed April 9, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e74e1dc881908afc01b328cda843 completed April 18, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f01f9d048190b553184f0f6ce29c completed April 18, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f3fef9308190b0354ed436c32e4c completed April 18, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.