Triple
T21173222
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | foreign relations of the Republic of Texas |
E521741
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entity |
| Predicate | relatedEvent |
P37
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FINISHED |
| Object | Texas annexation by the United States |
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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: Texas annexation by the United States | Statement: [foreign relations of the Republic of Texas, relatedEvent, Texas annexation by the United States]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Texas annexation by the United States Context triple: [foreign relations of the Republic of Texas, relatedEvent, Texas annexation by the United States]
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A.
Annexation of Texas
chosen
The Annexation of Texas was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States, a pivotal expansionist move that heightened sectional tensions over slavery in the antebellum era.
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B.
California annexation by the United States
California annexation by the United States was the mid-19th-century process, culminating in the Mexican–American War and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which the U.S. took control of Mexican Alta California and incorporated it into its territory.
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C.
Anglo-American colonization of Texas
Anglo-American colonization of Texas was the early 19th-century process by which settlers from the United States, led by empresarios like Stephen F. Austin, established Anglo communities in Mexican Texas, laying the groundwork for Texas independence.
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D.
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was an 1803 land deal in which the United States bought a vast territory from France, doubling the nation's size and securing control of the Mississippi River region.
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E.
United States territorial expansion
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.
- 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_69e0b50e30748190b186824a206d39b9 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e727141b7c81908eb8ca92850736a4 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 7:28 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3 p.m.