Triple

T16319940
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Securing the Old Northwest for the United States E396263 entity
Predicate setInRegion P285 FINISHED
Object Old Northwest Territory E39026 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Old Northwest Territory | Statement: [Securing the Old Northwest for the United States, setInRegion, Old Northwest Territory]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Old Northwest Territory
Context triple: [Securing the Old Northwest for the United States, setInRegion, Old Northwest Territory]
  • A. Territory South of the River Ohio
    The Territory South of the River Ohio was a late 18th-century U.S. territorial government, commonly known as the Southwest Territory, that preceded the statehood of Tennessee.
  • B. Northwest Territory
    The Northwest Territory was a vast early United States territory established after the American Revolution, encompassing lands that later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
  • C. Territory Northwest of the River Ohio chosen
    Territory Northwest of the River Ohio was the early United States federal territory established in 1787 that encompassed the region north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, from which the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota were later formed.
  • D. Illinois Country
    Illinois Country was a vast colonial-era region in the Mississippi River Valley that served as a key frontier territory of New France in North America.
  • E. Iroquoia
    Iroquoia was the historical homeland of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy in northeastern North America, encompassing their core territories in what is now upstate New York and surrounding regions.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d87f255b788190a400eba031dd85d8 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e296b4ad448190b2b195a5e0032c6e ner completed
NED1 batch_6a0035537d188190a88753d58939faf4 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:06 a.m.