Triple
T13973266
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | St. Clair's campaign, 1791 |
E336116
|
entity |
| Predicate | partOf |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United States expansion into the Old Northwest |
E38720
|
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: United States expansion into the Old Northwest | Statement: [St. Clair's campaign, 1791, partOf, United States expansion into the Old Northwest]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States expansion into the Old Northwest Context triple: [St. Clair's campaign, 1791, partOf, United States expansion into the Old Northwest]
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A.
United States territorial expansion
chosen
United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
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B.
Division of the Northwest Territory
The Division of the Northwest Territory was an early 19th-century reorganization of U.S. frontier lands that carved new territorial units, including what became the Michigan Territory, out of the original Northwest Territory.
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C.
Northern Expansion Doctrine
The Northern Expansion Doctrine was an Imperial Japanese military and political strategy that advocated expansion into Siberia and the Soviet Far East to secure resources and strategic dominance.
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D.
Southern Expansion Doctrine
The Southern Expansion Doctrine was an early 20th-century Japanese imperialist strategy advocating political, economic, and military expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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E.
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was an 1803 land deal in which the United States bought a vast territory from France, doubling the nation's size and securing control of the Mississippi River region.
- 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_69d81c61f3508190aaf2ca0dc0002c59 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de2e8fd6d48190a157eae8df3a2f3a |
completed | April 14, 2026, 12:09 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fba1df334c8190a3d65198cc3d11f6 |
completed | May 6, 2026, 8:17 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.