Triple
T18591264
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lot Whitcomb |
E454371
|
entity |
| Predicate | activeIn |
P1560
|
FINISHED |
| Object | American frontier society |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: American frontier society | Statement: [Lot Whitcomb, activeIn, American frontier society]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American frontier society Context triple: [Lot Whitcomb, activeIn, American frontier society]
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A.
Old West
chosen
The Old West refers to the 19th-century American frontier era characterized by westward expansion, cowboys, lawlessness, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
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B.
frontier thesis
The frontier thesis is a theory proposed by historian Frederick Jackson Turner that argues the American frontier experience fundamentally shaped the nation’s democracy, culture, and identity.
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C.
American Indian Life
American Indian Life is an early 20th-century ethnographic collection of essays and stories depicting the cultures, rituals, and everyday experiences of various Native American peoples.
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D.
Nebraska frontier
The Nebraska frontier refers to the sparsely settled, often harsh Great Plains region of Nebraska during the westward expansion era of the United States, characterized by homesteading, isolation, and conflict at the edge of American settlement.
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E.
Illinois frontier
The Illinois frontier was the sparsely settled, contested border region of early Illinois where settlers, Native American nations, and military forces frequently clashed during westward expansion.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d38ae7e081908a98df1251842402 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e545b5bc688190bdfe3911ac6b2d76 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:14 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.