Triple

T6961112
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site E161369 entity
Predicate tradedWith P2914 FINISHED
Object Mandan people
The Mandan people are a Native American tribe historically based along the upper Missouri River in present-day North Dakota, known for their earth-lodge villages, extensive trade networks, and early contact with European and American explorers.
E645234 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: Mandan people | Statement: [Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, tradedWith, Mandan people]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mandan people
Context triple: [Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, tradedWith, Mandan people]
  • A. Hidatsa people
    The Hidatsa people are a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, historically known as semi-sedentary agriculturalists and traders who lived in earth-lodge villages along the upper Missouri River, closely allied with the Mandan and Arikara.
  • B. Assiniboine people
    The Assiniboine people are a Native American/First Nations group of the Northern Plains, historically nomadic bison hunters whose traditional territory spans parts of present-day Canada and the United States.
  • C. Gros Ventre people
    The Gros Ventre people are a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, historically nomadic bison hunters now primarily based on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana.
  • D. Nakota Sioux
    The Nakota Sioux are a Native American people of the Sioux Nation whose culture, spirituality, and history are deeply rooted in the northern Plains of North America.
  • E. Ngäbe-Buglé people
    The Ngäbe-Buglé people are an Indigenous group of Panama and Costa Rica known for their distinct language, traditional dress, and communal life in semi-autonomous territories.
  • 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: Mandan people
Triple: [Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, tradedWith, Mandan people]
Generated description
The Mandan people are a Native American tribe historically based along the upper Missouri River in present-day North Dakota, known for their earth-lodge villages, extensive trade networks, and early contact with European and American explorers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mandan people
Target entity description: The Mandan people are a Native American tribe historically based along the upper Missouri River in present-day North Dakota, known for their earth-lodge villages, extensive trade networks, and early contact with European and American explorers.
  • A. Hidatsa people
    The Hidatsa people are a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, historically known as semi-sedentary agriculturalists and traders who lived in earth-lodge villages along the upper Missouri River, closely allied with the Mandan and Arikara.
  • B. Assiniboine people
    The Assiniboine people are a Native American/First Nations group of the Northern Plains, historically nomadic bison hunters whose traditional territory spans parts of present-day Canada and the United States.
  • C. Gros Ventre people
    The Gros Ventre people are a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, historically nomadic bison hunters now primarily based on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana.
  • D. Nakota Sioux
    The Nakota Sioux are a Native American people of the Sioux Nation whose culture, spirituality, and history are deeply rooted in the northern Plains of North America.
  • E. Ngäbe-Buglé people
    The Ngäbe-Buglé people are an Indigenous group of Panama and Costa Rica known for their distinct language, traditional dress, and communal life in semi-autonomous territories.
  • 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_69c68852a9a0819097797e31d492e273 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6daeee4d48190b078beeebb0053f4 completed March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7ad70f09881909f1a03f295486942 completed March 28, 2026, 10:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ade26e24819085f431a576d29712 completed March 28, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ae9f8f648190adc5cdf08bc01d93 completed March 28, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.