Triple

T12789360
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin E305715 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Elgin–Marcy Treaty
The Elgin–Marcy Treaty was an 1854 reciprocity agreement between the United Kingdom (for British North America) and the United States that reduced tariffs and promoted free trade in natural resources across the U.S.–Canadian border.
E1008720 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: Elgin–Marcy Treaty | Statement: [James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, notableWork, Elgin–Marcy Treaty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elgin–Marcy Treaty
Context triple: [James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, notableWork, Elgin–Marcy Treaty]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Treaty of Lewistown
    The Treaty of Lewistown was an early 19th-century agreement in which the Shawnee ceded lands in Ohio to the United States, contributing to their displacement from the region.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Harris Treaty of 1858
    The Harris Treaty of 1858 was a landmark U.S.–Japan agreement that opened Japanese ports to American trade, granted extraterritorial rights to U.S. citizens, and marked a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
  • E. Omaha Treaty of 1854
    The Omaha Treaty of 1854 was an agreement in which the Omaha people ceded most of their traditional lands in what is now Nebraska to the United States, paving the way for increased American settlement in the region.
  • 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: Elgin–Marcy Treaty
Triple: [James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, notableWork, Elgin–Marcy Treaty]
Generated description
The Elgin–Marcy Treaty was an 1854 reciprocity agreement between the United Kingdom (for British North America) and the United States that reduced tariffs and promoted free trade in natural resources across the U.S.–Canadian border.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elgin–Marcy Treaty
Target entity description: The Elgin–Marcy Treaty was an 1854 reciprocity agreement between the United Kingdom (for British North America) and the United States that reduced tariffs and promoted free trade in natural resources across the U.S.–Canadian border.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Treaty of Lewistown
    The Treaty of Lewistown was an early 19th-century agreement in which the Shawnee ceded lands in Ohio to the United States, contributing to their displacement from the region.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Harris Treaty of 1858
    The Harris Treaty of 1858 was a landmark U.S.–Japan agreement that opened Japanese ports to American trade, granted extraterritorial rights to U.S. citizens, and marked a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
  • E. Omaha Treaty of 1854
    The Omaha Treaty of 1854 was an agreement in which the Omaha people ceded most of their traditional lands in what is now Nebraska to the United States, paving the way for increased American settlement in the region.
  • 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e6a61f48190972e241e70bc392c completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6a5427be88190956c616b832d9841 completed May 3, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6a641d1988190b9af41c8c7ca599e completed May 3, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a77ba20081908f72f46f64382fca completed May 3, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.