Triple

T1764432
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New France E38729 entity
Predicate exploredBy P1562 FINISHED
Object René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer best known for his expeditions in North America, including claiming the Mississippi River basin for France and helping to expand the territory of New France.
E205601 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: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle | Statement: [New France, exploredBy, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Context triple: [New France, exploredBy, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]
  • A. Jacques Marquette
    Jacques Marquette was a 17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer known for his expeditions in the Great Lakes region and along the Mississippi River.
  • B. Louis Jolliet
    Louis Jolliet was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer best known for his joint expedition with Jacques Marquette that mapped the Mississippi River and advanced French claims in North America.
  • C. Samuel de Champlain
    Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and cartographer known as the "Father of New France" for founding Quebec City and extensively mapping northeastern North America in the early 17th century.
  • D. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
    Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville was a French-Canadian explorer, naval officer, and soldier renowned for his campaigns against the English in North America and for helping to establish French Louisiana.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was a French colonial administrator and explorer who played a key role in the early history of Louisiana and served multiple terms as governor of French Louisiana.
  • 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: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Triple: [New France, exploredBy, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]
Generated description
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer best known for his expeditions in North America, including claiming the Mississippi River basin for France and helping to expand the territory of New France.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Target entity description: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer best known for his expeditions in North America, including claiming the Mississippi River basin for France and helping to expand the territory of New France.
  • A. Jacques Marquette
    Jacques Marquette was a 17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer known for his expeditions in the Great Lakes region and along the Mississippi River.
  • B. Louis Jolliet
    Louis Jolliet was a 17th-century French-Canadian explorer best known for his joint expedition with Jacques Marquette that mapped the Mississippi River and advanced French claims in North America.
  • C. Samuel de Champlain
    Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and cartographer known as the "Father of New France" for founding Quebec City and extensively mapping northeastern North America in the early 17th century.
  • D. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
    Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville was a French-Canadian explorer, naval officer, and soldier renowned for his campaigns against the English in North America and for helping to establish French Louisiana.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was a French colonial administrator and explorer who played a key role in the early history of Louisiana and served multiple terms as governor of French Louisiana.
  • 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_69a8862d562481908d7025a1c1f67c0d completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa646665088190afa31bdf48f14316 completed March 6, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adc99dab1c8190802d01ece5fcdd22 completed March 8, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adcaed1f788190b14c3e2d2c3036d9 completed March 8, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adcbee97e88190adc1315c0a5013ab completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.