Triple

T12781751
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject France and England in North America: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West E305523 entity
Predicate subject P450 FINISHED
Object René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle E205601 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: René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle | Statement: [France and England in North America: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, subject, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle
Context triple: [France and England in North America: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, subject, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle]
  • A. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle chosen
    René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer best known for his expeditions in North America, including claiming the Mississippi River basin for France and helping to expand the territory of New France.
  • B. Jacques Marquette
    Jacques Marquette was a 17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer known for his expeditions in the Great Lakes region and along the Mississippi River.
  • C. Henri de Tonti
    Henri de Tonti was a 17th-century Italian-born French explorer and soldier known for his role in exploring the Mississippi River valley and assisting René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in North American expeditions.
  • D. Gadifer de La Salle
    Gadifer de La Salle was a French Norman knight and explorer known for leading early 15th-century expeditions to the Canary Islands.
  • E. François Jolliet
    François Jolliet was a descendant of the notable French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet, likely living in New France and connected to early colonial society in North America.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e5b52048190b279b7ad066efe9f completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8c75a048190aee92e50017c214e completed May 3, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.