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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.