Triple

T5985924
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Hart Benton E133224 entity
Predicate ideology P496 FINISHED
Object Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, often used to justify territorial conquest and displacement of Indigenous peoples.
E38720 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: Manifest Destiny | Statement: [Thomas Hart Benton, ideology, Manifest Destiny]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manifest Destiny
Context triple: [Thomas Hart Benton, ideology, Manifest Destiny]
  • A. United States territorial expansion
    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. Monroe Doctrine
    The Monroe Doctrine was a foundational 19th-century U.S. foreign policy principle that opposed European colonialism in the Americas and asserted a special sphere of influence for the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
  • 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. Nativism in the United States
    Nativism in the United States is a political and social ideology characterized by hostility toward immigrants and the privileging of native-born Americans, often expressed through restrictive immigration policies and cultural prejudice.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Manifest Destiny
Triple: [Thomas Hart Benton, ideology, Manifest Destiny]
Generated description
Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, often used to justify territorial conquest and displacement of Indigenous peoples.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manifest Destiny
Target entity description: Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, often used to justify territorial conquest and displacement of Indigenous peoples.
  • 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. Monroe Doctrine
    The Monroe Doctrine was a foundational 19th-century U.S. foreign policy principle that opposed European colonialism in the Americas and asserted a special sphere of influence for the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
  • 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. Nativism in the United States
    Nativism in the United States is a political and social ideology characterized by hostility toward immigrants and the privileging of native-born Americans, often expressed through restrictive immigration policies and cultural prejudice.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c0087010d081908bb8142342d63330 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04dc2243c8190bd3488e7b24af985 completed March 22, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0e42a0fcc8190ab8d7f797b58a8e0 completed March 23, 2026, 6:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0f6e214748190a8e9452353853da4 completed March 23, 2026, 8:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0f74c175c81909d4414ca34fa85dd completed March 23, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:04 p.m.