Triple

T553655
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwest Passage E11895 entity
Predicate exploredBy P1562 FINISHED
Object John Davis
John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
 E116688 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: John Davis | Statement: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, John Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Davis
Context triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, John Davis]
  • A. William Rogers
    William Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, educators, and public figures.
  • B. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • C. John Taylor Johnston
    John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
  • D. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • E. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • 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: John Davis
Triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, John Davis]
Generated description
John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Davis
Target entity description: John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • A. William Rogers
    William Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, educators, and public figures.
  • B. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • C. John Taylor Johnston
    John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
  • D. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • E. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4991b296481908cf27e1d1ec67052 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac2573c6a48190bfe9b7f2ec026462 completed March 7, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac25dc9ee88190b7d7e72c6f7c8c76 completed March 7, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac2636ef5c8190909ff4e65c6787c5 completed March 7, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.