Triple
T16517022
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colin Robertson |
E401209
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hudson’s Bay Company |
E16791
|
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: Hudson’s Bay Company | Statement: [Colin Robertson, employer, Hudson’s Bay Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hudson’s Bay Company Context triple: [Colin Robertson, employer, Hudson’s Bay Company]
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A.
Hudson's Bay Company
chosen
Hudson's Bay Company is a historic Canadian retail and fur-trading enterprise founded in 1670 that became one of the oldest and most influential commercial institutions in North America.
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B.
North West Company
North West Company was a major Canadian fur trading enterprise that rivaled the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Pacific Fur Company
The Pacific Fur Company was an early 19th-century American fur-trading enterprise backed by John Jacob Astor that played a key role in the commercial and territorial expansion of the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
T. Eaton Company
T. Eaton Company was a historic Canadian department store chain that became a retail icon before its decline and closure in the late 20th century.
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E.
Canada Lands Company
Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
- 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_69d883838abc8190bc79cb2d41733ce2 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e32e7c7e588190acbcc2b807a98909 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 7:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a006086c0a881908976103f8a144f69 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.