Triple

T3545890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Hearne E74994 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object governor of Fort Prince of Wales
The governor of Fort Prince of Wales was the chief administrative and trading official in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s remote northern outpost on Hudson Bay during the late 18th century.
E367494 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: governor of Fort Prince of Wales | Statement: [Samuel Hearne, positionHeld, governor of Fort Prince of Wales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: governor of Fort Prince of Wales
Context triple: [Samuel Hearne, positionHeld, governor of Fort Prince of Wales]
  • A. Governor William Tryon
    Governor William Tryon was an 18th-century British colonial official best known for his controversial governorships of North Carolina and New York and his harsh suppression of colonial dissent.
  • B. Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province
    The Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province was the British colonial official responsible for administering the southern part of New Zealand under the short-lived New Munster provincial government in the mid-19th century.
  • C. Governor William Berkeley
    Governor William Berkeley was the colonial governor of Virginia best known for his autocratic rule, promotion of the tobacco economy, and central role as the establishment leader opposed during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
  • D. Edward Cornwallis
    Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
  • E. Governor General of New France
    The Governor General of New France was the French Crown’s highest colonial official in North America, responsible for overseeing military, diplomatic, and administrative affairs in the colony.
  • 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: governor of Fort Prince of Wales
Triple: [Samuel Hearne, positionHeld, governor of Fort Prince of Wales]
Generated description
The governor of Fort Prince of Wales was the chief administrative and trading official in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s remote northern outpost on Hudson Bay during the late 18th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: governor of Fort Prince of Wales
Target entity description: The governor of Fort Prince of Wales was the chief administrative and trading official in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s remote northern outpost on Hudson Bay during the late 18th century.
  • A. Governor William Tryon
    Governor William Tryon was an 18th-century British colonial official best known for his controversial governorships of North Carolina and New York and his harsh suppression of colonial dissent.
  • B. Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province
    The Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster Province was the British colonial official responsible for administering the southern part of New Zealand under the short-lived New Munster provincial government in the mid-19th century.
  • C. Governor William Berkeley
    Governor William Berkeley was the colonial governor of Virginia best known for his autocratic rule, promotion of the tobacco economy, and central role as the establishment leader opposed during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
  • D. Edward Cornwallis
    Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
  • E. Governor General of New France
    The Governor General of New France was the French Crown’s highest colonial official in North America, responsible for overseeing military, diplomatic, and administrative affairs in the colony.
  • 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_69ad85d33c6c819081d5ac1df13b5680 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbf77d938819095c72a88b5af644a completed March 8, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b38be29b408190a8dba8c8ae2485a4 completed March 13, 2026, 4 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b38c6dbfcc8190897d0c12e8ce4416 completed March 13, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b38cf9d8188190adb91671d062a6f9 completed March 13, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:20 p.m.