Triple
T19461891
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jedediah Smith |
E486892
|
entity |
| Predicate | businessPartner |
P282
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William H. Ashley |
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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: William H. Ashley | Statement: [Jedediah Smith, businessPartner, William H. Ashley]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Ashley Context triple: [Jedediah Smith, businessPartner, William H. Ashley]
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A.
William Henry Ashley
chosen
William Henry Ashley was an American frontiersman, fur trader, and politician who played a key role in opening the American West through his innovative fur-trade expeditions and leadership.
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B.
John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin was a 19th-century fur trader and physician known as the "Father of Oregon" for his pivotal role in the early settlement and development of the Pacific Northwest.
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C.
Frederick Little
Frederick Little is a fictional character in E.B. White’s children’s novel "Stuart Little," serving as the human father of the mouse protagonist within the Little family.
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D.
William H. Bonney
William H. Bonney is the real name of Billy the Kid, the infamous 19th-century American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West.
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E.
Zebulon Crocker
Zebulon Crocker was a 19th-century American Congregational minister and author known for his writings on church polity and religious controversy.
- 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_69d8e8d86d608190bd199a98d0297f27 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e633c983f481908b2684dc4380b889 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 2:10 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:38 p.m.