Triple

T4967691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwest Territory E111566 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Minnesota Territory
Minnesota Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1849 to 1858 that encompassed present-day Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas before statehood.
E489880 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: Minnesota Territory | Statement: [Northwest Territory, followedBy, Minnesota Territory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minnesota Territory
Context triple: [Northwest Territory, followedBy, Minnesota Territory]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Missouri Territory
    The Missouri Territory was a vast early-19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the central and western regions of North America that preceded the creation of several Midwestern and Great Plains states.
  • C. Dakota Territory
    Dakota Territory was a 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that once encompassed the areas that later became North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of neighboring states.
  • D. Iowa Territory
    Iowa Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1838 to 1846 that encompassed present-day Iowa and parts of surrounding states before Iowa achieved statehood.
  • E. Kansas Territory
    Kansas Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. territorial region that became a focal point of violent conflict over slavery’s expansion before eventually entering the Union as the state of Kansas.
  • 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: Minnesota Territory
Triple: [Northwest Territory, followedBy, Minnesota Territory]
Generated description
Minnesota Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1849 to 1858 that encompassed present-day Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas before statehood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minnesota Territory
Target entity description: Minnesota Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1849 to 1858 that encompassed present-day Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas before statehood.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Missouri Territory
    The Missouri Territory was a vast early-19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the central and western regions of North America that preceded the creation of several Midwestern and Great Plains states.
  • C. Dakota Territory
    Dakota Territory was a 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that once encompassed the areas that later became North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of neighboring states.
  • D. Iowa Territory
    Iowa Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1838 to 1846 that encompassed present-day Iowa and parts of surrounding states before Iowa achieved statehood.
  • E. Kansas Territory
    Kansas Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. territorial region that became a focal point of violent conflict over slavery’s expansion before eventually entering the Union as the state of Kansas.
  • 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_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_69bea46c12c481909aed42f9b45cde81 completed March 21, 2026, 2 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bea60fa3d8819096e76d8c8912a360 completed March 21, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea665872c81908743c8e22ff08561 completed March 21, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.