Triple

T7617718
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Lewis Herndon E172402 entity
Predicate participantIn P149 FINISHED
Object U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852)
The U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852) was an exploratory mission that surveyed the Amazon River and its tributaries to assess their geography, resources, and commercial potential for the United States.
 E677222 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: U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852) | Statement: [William Lewis Herndon, participantIn, U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852)
Context triple: [William Lewis Herndon, participantIn, U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852)]
  • A. Gaselee Expedition
    The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
  • B. McClure expedition
    The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
  • C. Second Fram Expedition
    The Second Fram Expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and significantly advanced polar geography.
  • D. Helder Expedition
    The Helder Expedition was a 1799 joint British and Russian military campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars aimed at seizing control of the northern Netherlands from French-aligned forces.
  • E. Congo Expedition
    Congo Expedition is an African rainforest-themed exhibit area at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium featuring species and habitats from the Congo Basin.
  • 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: U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852)
Triple: [William Lewis Herndon, participantIn, U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852)]
Generated description
The U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852) was an exploratory mission that surveyed the Amazon River and its tributaries to assess their geography, resources, and commercial potential for the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852)
Target entity description: The U.S. Navy expedition to the Amazon (1851–1852) was an exploratory mission that surveyed the Amazon River and its tributaries to assess their geography, resources, and commercial potential for the United States.
  • A. Gaselee Expedition
    The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
  • B. McClure expedition
    The McClure expedition was a mid-19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Robert McClure that is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, albeit partly by sledge over ice.
  • C. Second Fram Expedition
    The Second Fram Expedition was a Norwegian Arctic exploration voyage (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup that charted large areas of the Canadian High Arctic and significantly advanced polar geography.
  • D. Helder Expedition
    The Helder Expedition was a 1799 joint British and Russian military campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars aimed at seizing control of the northern Netherlands from French-aligned forces.
  • E. Congo Expedition
    Congo Expedition is an African rainforest-themed exhibit area at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium featuring species and habitats from the Congo Basin.
  • 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_69c699506b308190826894dab1d9ea86 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa46d95081909c01d1432585ab2a completed March 27, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c868714d7c8190aae66a3dd4e6214b completed March 28, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c86a93e34c81908aaf0edb023ee78c completed March 28, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c86af8330c8190a43c599e82fe465a completed March 28, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:55 p.m.