Triple

T15919950
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seward's Folly E386064 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Treaty of Cession (1867)
The Treaty of Cession (1867) was the agreement by which the Russian Empire sold Alaska to the United States, a purchase initially derided as “Seward’s Folly” but later recognized as strategically and economically significant.
E1184987 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: Treaty of Cession (1867) | Statement: [Seward's Folly, relatedTo, Treaty of Cession (1867)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treaty of Cession (1867)
Context triple: [Seward's Folly, relatedTo, Treaty of Cession (1867)]
  • A. Treaty of 1873
    The Treaty of 1873 was an agreement in which the Pawnee Nation ceded most of its remaining lands in Nebraska to the United States and relocated to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
  • B. Treaty of 1865 with the United States
    The Treaty of 1865 with the United States was an agreement that formalized peace and defined relations between the U.S. government and the Mojave people following mid-19th-century conflicts in the American Southwest.
  • C. Treaty of 1865 with the United States
    The Treaty of 1865 with the United States was an agreement in which the Omaha tribe ceded additional lands and accepted new federal terms that further constrained their sovereignty and reshaped their reservation in Nebraska.
  • D. Treaty of 1837 with the United States
    The Treaty of 1837 with the United States was an agreement in which the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Nation ceded large portions of their ancestral lands in the Upper Midwest to the U.S. government, contributing to their forced removal and displacement.
  • E. Treaty of 1863
    The Treaty of 1863 was a controversial agreement that drastically reduced the Nez Perce homeland in the Pacific Northwest, paving the way for increased U.S. settlement and later conflict.
  • 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: Treaty of Cession (1867)
Triple: [Seward's Folly, relatedTo, Treaty of Cession (1867)]
Generated description
The Treaty of Cession (1867) was the agreement by which the Russian Empire sold Alaska to the United States, a purchase initially derided as “Seward’s Folly” but later recognized as strategically and economically significant.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treaty of Cession (1867)
Target entity description: The Treaty of Cession (1867) was the agreement by which the Russian Empire sold Alaska to the United States, a purchase initially derided as “Seward’s Folly” but later recognized as strategically and economically significant.
  • A. Treaty of 1873
    The Treaty of 1873 was an agreement in which the Pawnee Nation ceded most of its remaining lands in Nebraska to the United States and relocated to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
  • B. Treaty of 1865 with the United States
    The Treaty of 1865 with the United States was an agreement that formalized peace and defined relations between the U.S. government and the Mojave people following mid-19th-century conflicts in the American Southwest.
  • C. Treaty of 1865 with the United States
    The Treaty of 1865 with the United States was an agreement in which the Omaha tribe ceded additional lands and accepted new federal terms that further constrained their sovereignty and reshaped their reservation in Nebraska.
  • D. Treaty of 1837 with the United States
    The Treaty of 1837 with the United States was an agreement in which the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Nation ceded large portions of their ancestral lands in the Upper Midwest to the U.S. government, contributing to their forced removal and displacement.
  • E. Treaty of 1863
    The Treaty of 1863 was a controversial agreement that drastically reduced the Nez Perce homeland in the Pacific Northwest, paving the way for increased U.S. settlement and later conflict.
  • 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_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_69ffb5a79b808190850fa9d327f7ef72 completed May 9, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb677927c8190bd45e7bae5fcf1ed completed May 9, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb7468fb88190a56cf1df5bd20f63 completed May 9, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:52 a.m.