Triple

T15177523
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1792–1793 overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean E362648 entity
Predicate countryAtTheTime P878 FINISHED
Object British North America
British North America was the collective term for Britain’s colonial possessions in North America, including territories that later became Canada, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
E41869 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: British North America | Statement: [1792–1793 overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean, countryAtTheTime, British North America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British North America
Context triple: [1792–1793 overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean, countryAtTheTime, British North America]
  • A. British America
    British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
  • B. Colony of Canada
    The Colony of Canada was a British North American province formed in 1841 by uniting Upper and Lower Canada, serving as a key predecessor to the modern nation of Canada before Confederation in 1867.
  • C. Colony of Newfoundland
    The Colony of Newfoundland was a British colonial territory on the island of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic, centered on its fishing industry and later becoming part of the Canadian Confederation as the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • D. Dominion of Newfoundland
    The Dominion of Newfoundland was a self-governing dominion of the British Empire in the early 20th century that later joined Canada as the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • E. Bermuda colony
    The Bermuda colony was an early 17th-century English settlement in the North Atlantic that became a strategic maritime outpost and one of England’s first permanent overseas colonies.
  • 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: British North America
Triple: [1792–1793 overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean, countryAtTheTime, British North America]
Generated description
British North America was the collective term for Britain’s colonial possessions in North America, including territories that later became Canada, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British North America
Target entity description: British North America was the collective term for Britain’s colonial possessions in North America, including territories that later became Canada, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • A. British America chosen
    British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
  • B. Colony of Canada
    The Colony of Canada was a British North American province formed in 1841 by uniting Upper and Lower Canada, serving as a key predecessor to the modern nation of Canada before Confederation in 1867.
  • C. Colony of Newfoundland
    The Colony of Newfoundland was a British colonial territory on the island of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic, centered on its fishing industry and later becoming part of the Canadian Confederation as the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • D. Dominion of Newfoundland
    The Dominion of Newfoundland was a self-governing dominion of the British Empire in the early 20th century that later joined Canada as the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • E. Bermuda colony
    The Bermuda colony was an early 17th-century English settlement in the North Atlantic that became a strategic maritime outpost and one of England’s first permanent overseas colonies.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85a09a39c81908759f23268e2d408 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e00663b4148190b647592eda315d1d completed April 15, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fed32a1e3c81909ca2bd431a01e9cf completed May 9, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fed3f5e31081908958efacf486e3a6 completed May 9, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fed51c1b0c81908bb195af7a8a7cef completed May 9, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:09 a.m.