Triple
T13520738
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William McGillivray |
E322886
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | North West Company |
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 | Statement: [William McGillivray, employer, North West Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North West Company Context triple: [William McGillivray, employer, North West Company]
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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.
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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C.
Nootka Trading Company
Nootka Trading Company is a fictional 19th-century British trading enterprise central to the plot of the television series "Taboo," in which James Keziah Delaney seeks to reclaim and control it.
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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.
Compagnie de l’Est
Compagnie de l’Est was a major 19th- and early 20th-century French railway company that operated lines serving the eastern regions of France and connections toward Germany and other neighboring countries.
- 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbafa3df0c8190804174695587f0ea |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f79d3afa0c81908733f3fd193d4e0f |
completed | May 3, 2026, 7:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:44 p.m.