Triple

T1281610
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saint Lawrence River E27337 entity
Predicate exploredBy P1562 FINISHED
Object Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier was a 16th-century French explorer best known for his voyages to North America, during which he claimed what is now Canada for France.
E146198 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: Jacques Cartier | Statement: [Saint Lawrence River, exploredBy, Jacques Cartier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacques Cartier
Context triple: [Saint Lawrence River, exploredBy, Jacques Cartier]
  • A. Samuel de Champlain
    Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and cartographer known as the "Father of New France" for founding Quebec City and extensively mapping northeastern North America in the early 17th century.
  • B. Giovanni da Verrazzano
    Giovanni da Verrazzano was a 16th-century Italian explorer best known for being the first European to extensively explore the Atlantic coast of North America, including the area around present-day New York Harbor.
  • C. Martin Frobisher
    Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
  • D. John Cabot
    John Cabot was an Italian-born navigator and explorer, sailing under the English flag, best known for his late 15th-century voyages to North America that helped lay the groundwork for England’s claims in the New World.
  • E. Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve
    Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve was a 17th-century French military officer and colonial leader best known as the founder and first governor of Montreal in New France.
  • 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: Jacques Cartier
Triple: [Saint Lawrence River, exploredBy, Jacques Cartier]
Generated description
Jacques Cartier was a 16th-century French explorer best known for his voyages to North America, during which he claimed what is now Canada for France.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacques Cartier
Target entity description: Jacques Cartier was a 16th-century French explorer best known for his voyages to North America, during which he claimed what is now Canada for France.
  • A. Samuel de Champlain
    Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and cartographer known as the "Father of New France" for founding Quebec City and extensively mapping northeastern North America in the early 17th century.
  • B. Giovanni da Verrazzano
    Giovanni da Verrazzano was a 16th-century Italian explorer best known for being the first European to extensively explore the Atlantic coast of North America, including the area around present-day New York Harbor.
  • C. Martin Frobisher
    Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
  • D. John Cabot
    John Cabot was an Italian-born navigator and explorer, sailing under the English flag, best known for his late 15th-century voyages to North America that helped lay the groundwork for England’s claims in the New World.
  • E. Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve
    Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve was a 17th-century French military officer and colonial leader best known as the founder and first governor of Montreal in New France.
  • 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_69a496d3710c8190955dee8bc0dacb50 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0b317788190a1672b5ee422a049 completed March 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2fb746881909ac7a8dd672fc939 completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3752a3c81908bd6d9744ad5f5a2 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3e44bf481908c5726adddc4b428 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.