Triple

T14871163
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Speirs Bruce E349745 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate
The Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate was a Scottish commercial and scientific venture focused on exploration and resource interests in the Svalbard (Spitsbergen) archipelago in the early 20th century.
E1124221 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: Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate | Statement: [William Speirs Bruce, founded, Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate
Context triple: [William Speirs Bruce, founded, Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate]
  • A. Maud Arctic expedition
    The Maud Arctic expedition was a Norwegian polar voyage led by Roald Amundsen in the early 20th century that aimed to drift across the Arctic Ocean aboard the ship Maud to advance scientific understanding of the polar regions.
  • B. Norwegian–British expedition
    The Norwegian–British expedition was a mid-20th-century mountaineering team notable for pioneering high-altitude climbs in the Hindu Kush, including the first ascent of Tirich Mir.
  • C. Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
    The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition was Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final Antarctic voyage (1921–1922), a largely scientific and exploratory mission that ended with his death in South Georgia.
  • D. Otto Sverdrup expedition
    The Otto Sverdrup expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and claimed several islands for Norway.
  • E. Jeannette Arctic expedition
    The Jeannette Arctic expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy voyage that ended in disaster when its ship became trapped and crushed by ice while attempting to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait.
  • 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: Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate
Triple: [William Speirs Bruce, founded, Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate]
Generated description
The Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate was a Scottish commercial and scientific venture focused on exploration and resource interests in the Svalbard (Spitsbergen) archipelago in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate
Target entity description: The Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate was a Scottish commercial and scientific venture focused on exploration and resource interests in the Svalbard (Spitsbergen) archipelago in the early 20th century.
  • A. Maud Arctic expedition
    The Maud Arctic expedition was a Norwegian polar voyage led by Roald Amundsen in the early 20th century that aimed to drift across the Arctic Ocean aboard the ship Maud to advance scientific understanding of the polar regions.
  • B. Norwegian–British expedition
    The Norwegian–British expedition was a mid-20th-century mountaineering team notable for pioneering high-altitude climbs in the Hindu Kush, including the first ascent of Tirich Mir.
  • C. Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
    The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition was Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final Antarctic voyage (1921–1922), a largely scientific and exploratory mission that ended with his death in South Georgia.
  • D. Otto Sverdrup expedition
    The Otto Sverdrup expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and claimed several islands for Norway.
  • E. Jeannette Arctic expedition
    The Jeannette Arctic expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy voyage that ended in disaster when its ship became trapped and crushed by ice while attempting to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait.
  • 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_69d822ee4f408190b6ac3b2fa434f0df completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded57967748190a7c05ebb74aacb7c completed April 15, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe65129a588190bbad294b500f411f completed May 8, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe66a5f3a88190827c6c9247323153 completed May 8, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6736ff34819098524e4401a414aa completed May 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:55 a.m.