Triple
T1414488
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James McGill |
E31881
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
North West Company
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.
|
E162838
|
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: North West Company | Statement: [James McGill, employer, North West Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North West Company Context triple: [James McGill, employer, North West Company]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Muscovy Company
The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
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D.
Canada Lands Company
Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
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E.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
- 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: North West Company Triple: [James McGill, employer, North West Company]
Generated description
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.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North West Company Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
-
B.
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.
-
C.
Muscovy Company
The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
-
D.
Canada Lands Company
Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
-
E.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
- 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c3e5f9d08190861206934cd71fd8 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ace5812abc819091894509e9d6bd77 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:57 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ace95beb64819081f6f169c86105fd |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:13 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ace9bd8fcc8190b25515f2ba1284c0 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.