Triple

T4967683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwest Territory E111566 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object United States territorial expansion E38720 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: United States territorial expansion | Statement: [Northwest Territory, partOf, United States territorial expansion]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United States territorial expansion
Context triple: [Northwest Territory, partOf, United States territorial expansion]
  • A. United States territorial expansion chosen
    United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
  • B. Anglo-American colonization of Texas
    Anglo-American colonization of Texas was the early 19th-century process by which settlers from the United States, led by empresarios like Stephen F. Austin, established Anglo communities in Mexican Texas, laying the groundwork for Texas independence.
  • C. Louisiana Purchase
    The Louisiana Purchase was an 1803 land deal in which the United States bought a vast territory from France, doubling the nation's size and securing control of the Mississippi River region.
  • D. Alaska Purchase
    The Alaska Purchase was the 1867 transaction in which the United States bought the Alaska territory from the Russian Empire, significantly expanding U.S. land holdings in North America.
  • E. Securing the Old Northwest for the United States
    "Securing the Old Northwest for the United States" is a historical work detailing George Rogers Clark’s military campaigns and strategies that helped establish American control over the Old Northwest territory during the Revolutionary era.
  • 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_69bd4419393c819086319a6fe4bf8542 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71f8f550819099235511ca271e2d completed March 20, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81f43b60819091134778c6379893 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.