Triple

T2690087
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William F. Raynolds E57578 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters
The Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters was an 1859–1860 U.S. Army topographical survey that produced some of the earliest detailed scientific and geographic information about the northern Rocky Mountains and the Yellowstone region.
E291214 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters | Statement: [William F. Raynolds, notableWork, Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters
Context triple: [William F. Raynolds, notableWork, Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters]
  • A. Powder River Expedition
    The Powder River Expedition was an 1865 U.S. Army campaign against Plains tribes in present-day Wyoming and Montana, aimed at securing overland travel routes and asserting federal control in the northern Great Plains.
  • B. Lewis and Clark Expedition
    The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an early 19th-century American exploratory journey that mapped and studied the newly acquired western territories, establishing routes and relations that greatly expanded U.S. geographic and scientific knowledge.
  • C. Granma expedition
    The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
  • D. Ralph Plaisted expedition
    The Ralph Plaisted expedition was a 1968 snowmobile journey that became widely recognized as the first confirmed over-ice surface expedition to reach the geographic North Pole.
  • E. Vancouver Expedition
    The Vancouver Expedition was a late 18th-century British naval voyage led by George Vancouver that extensively charted the Pacific Northwest coast of North America and parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters
Triple: [William F. Raynolds, notableWork, Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters]
Generated description
The Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters was an 1859–1860 U.S. Army topographical survey that produced some of the earliest detailed scientific and geographic information about the northern Rocky Mountains and the Yellowstone region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters
Target entity description: The Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters was an 1859–1860 U.S. Army topographical survey that produced some of the earliest detailed scientific and geographic information about the northern Rocky Mountains and the Yellowstone region.
  • A. Powder River Expedition
    The Powder River Expedition was an 1865 U.S. Army campaign against Plains tribes in present-day Wyoming and Montana, aimed at securing overland travel routes and asserting federal control in the northern Great Plains.
  • B. Lewis and Clark Expedition
    The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an early 19th-century American exploratory journey that mapped and studied the newly acquired western territories, establishing routes and relations that greatly expanded U.S. geographic and scientific knowledge.
  • C. Granma expedition
    The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
  • D. Ralph Plaisted expedition
    The Ralph Plaisted expedition was a 1968 snowmobile journey that became widely recognized as the first confirmed over-ice surface expedition to reach the geographic North Pole.
  • E. Vancouver Expedition
    The Vancouver Expedition was a late 18th-century British naval voyage led by George Vancouver that extensively charted the Pacific Northwest coast of North America and parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69ab4a5028388190a36f3baf1588309e completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abda0ba2208190ad87763ecbef8c3c completed March 7, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf5e85bc81908ba1b1968cfa440a completed March 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afafddb2a081909b891eed7ba5411d completed March 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb10304488190a1129efae36b3c4e completed March 10, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:54 p.m.