Triple

T8711098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Wesley Powell E206777 entity
Predicate expedition P1561 FINISHED
Object 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition
The 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition was John Wesley Powell’s second major scientific and exploratory journey through the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers, aimed at mapping, studying geology, and documenting the region’s Indigenous cultures.
E756618 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: 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition | Statement: [John Wesley Powell, expedition, 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition
Context triple: [John Wesley Powell, expedition, 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition]
  • A. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries
    Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries is John Wesley Powell’s classic 19th-century account of his pioneering scientific and geographic survey of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon region.
  • B. Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition
    The Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition was an 1870 exploratory survey of the Yellowstone region whose reports helped lead to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
  • C. Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters
    The Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters was an 1859–1860 U.S. Army topographical survey that produced some of the earliest detailed scientific and geographic information about the northern Rocky Mountains and the Yellowstone region.
  • D. Powder River Expedition
    The Powder River Expedition was an 1865 U.S. Army campaign against Plains tribes in present-day Wyoming and Montana, aimed at securing overland travel routes and asserting federal control in the northern Great Plains.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition
Triple: [John Wesley Powell, expedition, 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition]
Generated description
The 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition was John Wesley Powell’s second major scientific and exploratory journey through the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers, aimed at mapping, studying geology, and documenting the region’s Indigenous cultures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition
Target entity description: The 1871–1872 Colorado River expedition was John Wesley Powell’s second major scientific and exploratory journey through the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers, aimed at mapping, studying geology, and documenting the region’s Indigenous cultures.
  • A. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries
    Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries is John Wesley Powell’s classic 19th-century account of his pioneering scientific and geographic survey of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon region.
  • B. Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition
    The Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition was an 1870 exploratory survey of the Yellowstone region whose reports helped lead to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
  • C. Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters
    The Raynolds Expedition to the Yellowstone and Missouri River headwaters was an 1859–1860 U.S. Army topographical survey that produced some of the earliest detailed scientific and geographic information about the northern Rocky Mountains and the Yellowstone region.
  • D. Powder River Expedition
    The Powder River Expedition was an 1865 U.S. Army campaign against Plains tribes in present-day Wyoming and Montana, aimed at securing overland travel routes and asserting federal control in the northern Great Plains.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ca83572d4881909bef3be2b578d539 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5c3189f88190bb9bb77ba9d28d60 completed March 31, 2026, 11:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf5165c7708190988eeacf4789b708 completed April 3, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf540bee8081908f9c176a1971742f completed April 3, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf54a056408190bd536f79e3ec33be completed April 3, 2026, 5:48 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:35 p.m.