Triple
T2298660
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Smith |
E51677
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Virginia Company of London |
E48684
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Virginia Company of London | Statement: [John Smith, employer, Virginia Company of London]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Company of London Context triple: [John Smith, employer, Virginia Company of London]
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A.
Virginia Company of London
chosen
The Virginia Company of London was an English joint-stock company chartered in the early 17th century to finance and establish settlements in North America, most notably the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
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B.
Muscovy Company
The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
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C.
Virginia Colonization Society
The Virginia Colonization Society was a state-level auxiliary organization that promoted and supported the American Colonization Society’s efforts to resettle free African Americans in Africa, particularly in Liberia.
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D.
Massachusetts Bay Company
The Massachusetts Bay Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company that organized and financed the Puritan settlement and governance of what became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
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E.
British South Sea Company
The British South Sea Company was an early 18th-century English trading and finance corporation notorious for its role in the South Sea Bubble and its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88b0a9f248190bcff941463d8f65a |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc5df37808190ba6a43dc1e9e723a |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:29 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae7f2e338881908e09d19f469a59ce |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:05 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.