Triple

T4260247
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Fur Company E96084 entity
Predicate afterAWhileSplitInto P11294 FINISHED
Object Northern Department
The Northern Department was a regional division of the American Fur Company that managed its fur-trading operations in the northern territories of North America.
E427502 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: Northern Department | Statement: [American Fur Company, afterAWhileSplitInto, Northern Department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Department
Context triple: [American Fur Company, afterAWhileSplitInto, Northern Department]
  • A. Northern Department
    The Northern Department was a major British military command area in North America during the American Revolutionary War, encompassing operations in the northern colonies and frontier regions.
  • B. Northern Division
    Northern Division is a geographic and administrative subdivision of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico that organizes federal judicial proceedings for the northern part of the state.
  • C. Northern Division
    The Northern Division is one of the geographic and administrative subdivisions of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, organizing federal judicial proceedings for the northern part of that district.
  • D. Northern Division
    The Northern Division is a regional subdivision of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota that handles federal cases arising from the northern part of the state.
  • E. Northern Division
    The Northern Division is a regional administrative unit of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan that handles federal cases arising from the northern portion of the district.
  • 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: Northern Department
Triple: [American Fur Company, afterAWhileSplitInto, Northern Department]
Generated description
The Northern Department was a regional division of the American Fur Company that managed its fur-trading operations in the northern territories of North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Department
Target entity description: The Northern Department was a regional division of the American Fur Company that managed its fur-trading operations in the northern territories of North America.
  • A. Northern Department
    The Northern Department was a major British military command area in North America during the American Revolutionary War, encompassing operations in the northern colonies and frontier regions.
  • B. Northern Division
    Northern Division is a geographic and administrative subdivision of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico that organizes federal judicial proceedings for the northern part of the state.
  • C. Northern Division
    The Northern Division is one of the geographic and administrative subdivisions of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, organizing federal judicial proceedings for the northern part of that district.
  • D. Northern Division
    The Northern Division is a regional subdivision of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota that handles federal cases arising from the northern part of the state.
  • E. Northern Division
    The Northern Division is a regional administrative unit of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan that handles federal cases arising from the northern portion of the district.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: afterAWhileSplitInto
Context triple: [American Fur Company, afterAWhileSplitInto, Northern Department]
  • A. partOfAfter
    Indicates that one entity becomes a component or subset of another entity at some point after a specified time or event.
  • B. separatedInto
    Indicates that something has been divided or split into distinct parts, groups, or components.
  • C. hasSplit chosen
    Indicates that an entity has undergone a division into two or more distinct parts, groups, or components.
  • D. acceleratedAfter
    Indicates that one entity increases its speed or rate of change following, and as a consequence of, another specified event or condition.
  • E. after
    Indicates that one event, state, or action occurs later in time than another, following it in temporal order.
  • 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_69b3454095ac81909c2494f7ff294af1 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34f8103b48190934a810faafa6cb7 completed March 12, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5b78825508190b2b6ca46c8e1b27c completed March 14, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b84b58a081909618d0c108317f92 completed March 14, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b8be90c88190a4852c625e326f6b completed March 14, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69b347f73e008190a908a48ef389945a completed March 12, 2026, 11:10 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:06 p.m.