Triple

T15919920
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seward's Folly E386064 entity
Predicate appliedTo P1129 FINISHED
Object purchase of Alaska E2450 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: purchase of Alaska | Statement: [Seward's Folly, appliedTo, purchase of Alaska]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: purchase of Alaska
Context triple: [Seward's Folly, appliedTo, purchase of Alaska]
  • A. Alaska Purchase chosen
    The Alaska Purchase was the 1867 transaction in which the United States bought the Alaska territory from the Russian Empire, significantly expanding U.S. land holdings in North America.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Alaska statehood movement
    The Alaska statehood movement was a political campaign in the mid-20th century that sought to transform Alaska from a U.S. territory into a full-fledged state, culminating in its admission as the 49th state in 1959.
  • D. Gadsden Purchase agreement
    The Gadsden Purchase agreement was an 1853 treaty between the United States and Mexico in which the U.S. bought a strip of land in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad and finalize the continental border.
  • E. Alaska territorial era
    The Alaska territorial era was the period between the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia and its admission as a state, when the region was governed as a U.S. territory with limited self-rule and evolving political institutions.
  • 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_69d86da686e4819097cbf3b1fc2d881d completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e15680c7b881909150f8b53bc058d4 completed April 16, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffbe7055a48190b0f426f3e3c22f9d completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:52 a.m.