Triple

T4857963
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Astoria, Oregon E108582 entity
Predicate foundedByOrganization P3263 FINISHED
Object Pacific Fur Company
The Pacific Fur Company was an early 19th-century American fur-trading enterprise backed by John Jacob Astor that played a key role in the commercial and territorial expansion of the Pacific Northwest.
E474694 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: Pacific Fur Company | Statement: [Astoria, Oregon, foundedByOrganization, Pacific Fur Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Fur Company
Context triple: [Astoria, Oregon, foundedByOrganization, Pacific Fur Company]
  • A. Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company
    The Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company was a 19th-century fur trading enterprise involved in the early commercial exploitation and settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
  • B. Hudson's Bay Company
    Hudson's Bay Company is a historic Canadian retail and fur-trading enterprise founded in 1670 that became one of the oldest and most influential commercial institutions in North America.
  • C. American Fur Company
    The American Fur Company was a dominant early 19th-century U.S. fur-trading enterprise founded by John Jacob Astor that played a major role in the economic development of the American frontier.
  • D. North West Company
    North West Company was a major Canadian fur trading enterprise that rivaled the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Russian-American Company
    The Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored chartered company that managed and profited from the Russian Empire’s colonial and fur-trading activities in North America, particularly in Alaska, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • 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: Pacific Fur Company
Triple: [Astoria, Oregon, foundedByOrganization, Pacific Fur Company]
Generated description
The Pacific Fur Company was an early 19th-century American fur-trading enterprise backed by John Jacob Astor that played a key role in the commercial and territorial expansion of the Pacific Northwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Fur Company
Target entity description: The Pacific Fur Company was an early 19th-century American fur-trading enterprise backed by John Jacob Astor that played a key role in the commercial and territorial expansion of the Pacific Northwest.
  • A. Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company
    The Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company was a 19th-century fur trading enterprise involved in the early commercial exploitation and settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
  • B. Hudson's Bay Company
    Hudson's Bay Company is a historic Canadian retail and fur-trading enterprise founded in 1670 that became one of the oldest and most influential commercial institutions in North America.
  • C. American Fur Company
    The American Fur Company was a dominant early 19th-century U.S. fur-trading enterprise founded by John Jacob Astor that played a major role in the economic development of the American frontier.
  • D. North West Company
    North West Company was a major Canadian fur trading enterprise that rivaled the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Russian-American Company
    The Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored chartered company that managed and profited from the Russian Empire’s colonial and fur-trading activities in North America, particularly in Alaska, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7162427c81908a67a07545f698ae completed March 20, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cf05d7c8190ac6e1b9e93b5256f completed March 21, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5f98d4d481908eedf03569d38642 completed March 21, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be6044d31081908384ed9da8c6b707 completed March 21, 2026, 9:09 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.