Triple

T16127575
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elisha Kent Kane E391310 entity
Predicate participantIn P149 FINISHED
Object First Grinnell Expedition
The First Grinnell Expedition was an 1850–1851 American Arctic voyage launched to search for the lost Franklin expedition and explore the high northern latitudes.
E1198420 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: First Grinnell Expedition | Statement: [Elisha Kent Kane, participantIn, First Grinnell Expedition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Grinnell Expedition
Context triple: [Elisha Kent Kane, participantIn, First Grinnell Expedition]
  • A. Second Grinnell Expedition
    The Second Grinnell Expedition was an 1853–1855 American Arctic voyage led by Elisha Kent Kane that searched for the lost Franklin expedition and made important geographic and scientific discoveries in the high Arctic.
  • B. Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition
    The Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition was an 1870 exploratory survey of the Yellowstone region whose reports helped lead to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
  • C. Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
    The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 was a two-month scientific and exploratory voyage along the Alaskan coast, funded and led by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and staffed by prominent scientists, artists, and naturalists.
  • D. Ross expedition
    The Ross expedition was a 19th-century British Antarctic exploration led by James Clark Ross that conducted pioneering scientific research and charted large portions of the Antarctic coastline.
  • E. McClure expedition
    The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
  • 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: First Grinnell Expedition
Triple: [Elisha Kent Kane, participantIn, First Grinnell Expedition]
Generated description
The First Grinnell Expedition was an 1850–1851 American Arctic voyage launched to search for the lost Franklin expedition and explore the high northern latitudes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Grinnell Expedition
Target entity description: The First Grinnell Expedition was an 1850–1851 American Arctic voyage launched to search for the lost Franklin expedition and explore the high northern latitudes.
  • A. Second Grinnell Expedition
    The Second Grinnell Expedition was an 1853–1855 American Arctic voyage led by Elisha Kent Kane that searched for the lost Franklin expedition and made important geographic and scientific discoveries in the high Arctic.
  • B. Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition
    The Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition was an 1870 exploratory survey of the Yellowstone region whose reports helped lead to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
  • C. Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
    The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 was a two-month scientific and exploratory voyage along the Alaskan coast, funded and led by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and staffed by prominent scientists, artists, and naturalists.
  • D. Ross expedition
    The Ross expedition was a 19th-century British Antarctic exploration led by James Clark Ross that conducted pioneering scientific research and charted large portions of the Antarctic coastline.
  • E. McClure expedition
    The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
  • 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_69d87f1bb0988190b490d273dbf3fd03 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e20205bed48190a6930439738da191 completed April 17, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7a0ed9c8190a10fa88ee94811cb completed May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fffba882d48190a32cd60115310231 completed May 10, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fffc17a21881908744b0a70a808df2 completed May 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5 a.m.