Triple

T3503705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zebulon Pike E74025 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River
The Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River was an early 19th-century U.S. exploratory mission led by Zebulon Pike to locate the river’s source and assess the northern Louisiana Purchase region.
E363927 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: Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River | Statement: [Zebulon Pike, notableWork, Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River
Context triple: [Zebulon Pike, notableWork, Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. McClure expedition
    The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River
Triple: [Zebulon Pike, notableWork, Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River]
Generated description
The Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River was an early 19th-century U.S. exploratory mission led by Zebulon Pike to locate the river’s source and assess the northern Louisiana Purchase region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River
Target entity description: The Pike expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River was an early 19th-century U.S. exploratory mission led by Zebulon Pike to locate the river’s source and assess the northern Louisiana Purchase region.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. McClure expedition
    The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ad85ce7a9c81909ddc5cf0cb67a6e3 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbf0c2b48190b49923137bb9e45d completed March 8, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373db933881908557d678dcdee382 completed March 13, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b377a690348190a765b021bbbc820c completed March 13, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3781aaab48190a497a0929966ec12 completed March 13, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.