Triple
T2791481
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kangaroo Island |
E61937
|
entity |
| Predicate | firstEuropeanSightingBy |
P35335
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders was a British navigator and cartographer best known for leading the first circumnavigation of Australia and popularizing its name.
|
E298636
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: Matthew Flinders | Statement: [Kangaroo Island, firstEuropeanSightingBy, Matthew Flinders]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Flinders Context triple: [Kangaroo Island, firstEuropeanSightingBy, Matthew Flinders]
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A.
James Cook
James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
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B.
George Vancouver
George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
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C.
Samuel Wallis
Samuel Wallis was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer best known for leading one of the first European voyages to the Pacific that brought widespread attention to islands such as Tahiti.
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D.
James Clark Ross
James Clark Ross was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer renowned for his Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, including the discovery of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.
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E.
Nathaniel Palmer
Nathaniel Palmer was a 19th-century American seal hunter and explorer often credited as one of the first people to sight the Antarctic Peninsula.
- 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: Matthew Flinders Triple: [Kangaroo Island, firstEuropeanSightingBy, Matthew Flinders]
Generated description
Matthew Flinders was a British navigator and cartographer best known for leading the first circumnavigation of Australia and popularizing its name.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Flinders Target entity description: Matthew Flinders was a British navigator and cartographer best known for leading the first circumnavigation of Australia and popularizing its name.
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A.
James Cook
James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
-
B.
George Vancouver
George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
-
C.
Samuel Wallis
Samuel Wallis was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer best known for leading one of the first European voyages to the Pacific that brought widespread attention to islands such as Tahiti.
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D.
James Clark Ross
James Clark Ross was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer renowned for his Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, including the discovery of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.
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E.
Nathaniel Palmer
Nathaniel Palmer was a 19th-century American seal hunter and explorer often credited as one of the first people to sight the Antarctic Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: firstEuropeanSightingBy Context triple: [Kangaroo Island, firstEuropeanSightingBy, Matthew Flinders]
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A.
landSightedBy
chosen
Indicates that a particular area of land has been visually observed or detected by a specified observer.
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B.
wasFirstObservedIn
Indicates that an entity was initially noticed, recorded, or detected at a particular time or place.
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C.
firstEuropeanClaimBy
Indicates that a place or territory was first formally claimed or asserted as possession by a specified European individual, group, or state.
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D.
firstContactWithEuropeans
Indicates that this marks the initial recorded encounter or interaction between a group and European people.
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E.
yearOfEuropeanExploration
Indicates the specific year in which a European exploration of the referenced entity took place.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (6 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_69ab4b7f51d881908768300ebd2fbdae |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abdeea881481908d759c72798a50fb |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:16 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69afc65c1f848190b6efeefb64a3e131 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69afc6e6d4bc81908108fe24677448c3 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69afc7907be88190b70458ed735261e8 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 7:26 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69abdd025c948190a97dd961a9592bac |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:08 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.