Triple
T4444818
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Mercer |
E96257
|
entity |
| Predicate | regionOfActivity |
P82
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Washington Territory |
E264626
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Washington Territory | Statement: [Thomas Mercer, regionOfActivity, Washington Territory]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington Territory Context triple: [Thomas Mercer, regionOfActivity, Washington Territory]
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A.
Washington Territory
chosen
Washington Territory was a 19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the Pacific Northwest that encompassed present-day Washington and parts of surrounding states before achieving statehood in 1889.
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B.
Idaho Territory
Idaho Territory was a historical U.S. territory (1863–1890) in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West that preceded the state of Idaho.
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C.
Wyoming Territory
Wyoming Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States in the late 19th century that preceded the state of Wyoming and encompassed parts of the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.
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D.
Nebraska Territory
Nebraska Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. organized incorporated territory that once encompassed much of the northern Great Plains before being gradually reduced to form the state of Nebraska and parts of several other states.
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E.
Oregon Country
Oregon Country was a vast, historically contested region of the Pacific Northwest in North America, encompassing present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of British Columbia and Wyoming, that was jointly occupied by the United States and Britain in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69b345415ba481908df738e7174448ba |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b355d00c288190a4f3fec29b5d85b2 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:09 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b613850eb88190b689a632b0e2b374 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:32 p.m.