Triple

T18591244
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lot Whitcomb E454371 entity
Predicate placeOfActivity P1527 FINISHED
Object Oregon Territory
The Oregon Territory was a 19th-century U.S. organized incorporated territory in the Pacific Northwest that encompassed present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
E1332090 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: Oregon Territory | Statement: [Lot Whitcomb, placeOfActivity, Oregon Territory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oregon Territory
Context triple: [Lot Whitcomb, placeOfActivity, Oregon Territory]
  • A. Idaho Territory
    Idaho Territory was a historical U.S. territory (1863–1890) in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West that preceded the state of Idaho.
  • B. Washington Territory
    Washington Territory was a 19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the Pacific Northwest that encompassed present-day Washington and parts of surrounding states before achieving statehood in 1889.
  • C. Oregon and Idaho
    Oregon and Idaho are neighboring U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West, respectively, that share a rugged border defined in part by the Snake River and Hells Canyon.
  • D. Oregon and Washington
    Oregon and Washington are neighboring U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest, known for their shared border along the Columbia River and their diverse landscapes of coastline, forests, mountains, and high desert.
  • E. Oregon Country
    Oregon Country was a vast, historically contested region of the Pacific Northwest in North America, encompassing present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of British Columbia and Wyoming, that was jointly occupied by the United States and Britain in the early 19th century.
  • 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: Oregon Territory
Triple: [Lot Whitcomb, placeOfActivity, Oregon Territory]
Generated description
The Oregon Territory was a 19th-century U.S. organized incorporated territory in the Pacific Northwest that encompassed present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oregon Territory
Target entity description: The Oregon Territory was a 19th-century U.S. organized incorporated territory in the Pacific Northwest that encompassed present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
  • A. Idaho Territory
    Idaho Territory was a historical U.S. territory (1863–1890) in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West that preceded the state of Idaho.
  • B. Washington Territory
    Washington Territory was a 19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the Pacific Northwest that encompassed present-day Washington and parts of surrounding states before achieving statehood in 1889.
  • C. Oregon and Idaho
    Oregon and Idaho are neighboring U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West, respectively, that share a rugged border defined in part by the Snake River and Hells Canyon.
  • D. Oregon and Washington
    Oregon and Washington are neighboring U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest, known for their shared border along the Columbia River and their diverse landscapes of coastline, forests, mountains, and high desert.
  • E. Oregon Country
    Oregon Country was a vast, historically contested region of the Pacific Northwest in North America, encompassing present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of British Columbia and Wyoming, that was jointly occupied by the United States and Britain in the early 19th century.
  • 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_69d8d38ae7e081908a98df1251842402 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e545b5bc688190bdfe3911ac6b2d76 completed April 19, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04f898b59481909aa72291b24a4cd0 completed May 13, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a04fc705b3481908bea3e5f6ce33f1e completed May 13, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04fcc66ddc819094d427390e7c3774 completed May 13, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.