Triple
T20293305
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Donner |
E510080
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | American Westward Expansion |
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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 Westward Expansion | Statement: [George Donner, associatedWith, American Westward Expansion]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Westward Expansion Context triple: [George Donner, associatedWith, American Westward Expansion]
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A.
United States territorial expansion
chosen
United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
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B.
WesternDevelopmentStrategy
WesternDevelopmentStrategy is a long-term Chinese government initiative aimed at accelerating economic growth and reducing regional disparities in the country’s western and inland provinces through large-scale investment and policy support.
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C.
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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D.
American Indian Wars in the West
The American Indian Wars in the West were a series of 19th-century armed conflicts between the expanding United States and numerous Native American nations over control of land, resources, and political autonomy across the western frontier.
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E.
Oregon territorial period
The Oregon territorial period was the era from 1848 to 1859 when the region that would become the state of Oregon was governed as a U.S. territory with its own appointed and elected officials.
- 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_69e0b4c652388190b782cad965e5a098 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e677024de08190bfa54ae26b5486d1 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:12 a.m.