Triple

T9381979
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tudor Ice Company E225806 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object New England ice trade
The New England ice trade was a 19th-century industry centered in the northeastern United States that harvested, stored, and shipped natural ice worldwide for use in food preservation, drinks, and refrigeration before mechanical cooling became widespread.
E794361 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: New England ice trade | Statement: [Tudor Ice Company, associatedWith, New England ice trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New England ice trade
Context triple: [Tudor Ice Company, associatedWith, New England ice trade]
  • A. New England Yankee
    New England Yankee refers to a traditional New Englander of early English colonial descent, often associated with frugality, self-reliance, and a strong regional identity in the northeastern United States.
  • B. New England merchants
    New England merchants were early 19th-century American traders and shipowners whose Atlantic commerce and maritime interests made them politically influential and especially sensitive to federal trade restrictions and wartime policies.
  • C. New England life
    New England life encompasses the traditional coastal, rural, and small-town culture, history, and daily experiences of the northeastern United States region known as New England.
  • D. Ill Newes from New England
    Ill Newes from New England is a 17th-century religious and political tract by John Clarke criticizing the persecution of Baptists in colonial New England and advocating for religious liberty.
  • E. Seward’s Icebox
    Seward’s Icebox is a derisive 19th-century nickname for the U.S. acquisition of Alaska, mocking Secretary of State William H. Seward’s purchase as a frozen, worthless wasteland.
  • 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: New England ice trade
Triple: [Tudor Ice Company, associatedWith, New England ice trade]
Generated description
The New England ice trade was a 19th-century industry centered in the northeastern United States that harvested, stored, and shipped natural ice worldwide for use in food preservation, drinks, and refrigeration before mechanical cooling became widespread.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New England ice trade
Target entity description: The New England ice trade was a 19th-century industry centered in the northeastern United States that harvested, stored, and shipped natural ice worldwide for use in food preservation, drinks, and refrigeration before mechanical cooling became widespread.
  • A. New England Yankee
    New England Yankee refers to a traditional New Englander of early English colonial descent, often associated with frugality, self-reliance, and a strong regional identity in the northeastern United States.
  • B. New England merchants
    New England merchants were early 19th-century American traders and shipowners whose Atlantic commerce and maritime interests made them politically influential and especially sensitive to federal trade restrictions and wartime policies.
  • C. New England life
    New England life encompasses the traditional coastal, rural, and small-town culture, history, and daily experiences of the northeastern United States region known as New England.
  • D. Ill Newes from New England
    Ill Newes from New England is a 17th-century religious and political tract by John Clarke criticizing the persecution of Baptists in colonial New England and advocating for religious liberty.
  • E. Seward’s Icebox
    Seward’s Icebox is a derisive 19th-century nickname for the U.S. acquisition of Alaska, mocking Secretary of State William H. Seward’s purchase as a frozen, worthless wasteland.
  • 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_69ca842e9dcc8190a264119e683cfe04 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd50be52248190bc7cd9deb95a1ef8 completed April 1, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0f4346be881909acfd218e7468782 completed April 4, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0f4b346988190b70cd311dc3481cd completed April 4, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0f589b86c8190a68c7047766ce464 completed April 4, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:44 p.m.