Triple

T18879831
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robeson Channel E461794 entity
Predicate exploredDuring P23375 FINISHED
Object United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873)
The United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873) was an American Arctic exploration mission led by Charles Francis Hall that sought to reach the North Pole but became infamous for Hall’s mysterious death and the crew’s subsequent struggle for survival on drifting ice floes.
E1347932 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: United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873) | Statement: [Robeson Channel, exploredDuring, United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873)
Context triple: [Robeson Channel, exploredDuring, United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873)]
  • A. United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842)
    The United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) was a major U.S. naval and scientific voyage that conducted extensive exploration and surveying of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding regions, significantly advancing 19th-century geography, natural history, and cartography.
  • B. Jeannette Arctic expedition
    The Jeannette Arctic expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy voyage that ended in disaster when its ship became trapped and crushed by ice while attempting to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait.
  • C. Fram expedition 1893–1896
    The Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering Arctic voyage that attempted to reach the North Pole by intentionally freezing the ship Fram into the polar ice and drifting with it across the Arctic Ocean.
  • D. Chelyuskin expedition
    The Chelyuskin expedition was a 1933–1934 Soviet Arctic voyage whose ship became trapped and crushed by ice, leading to a dramatic mass rescue that became a major propaganda triumph for the USSR.
  • E. Russian Polar Expedition
    The Russian Polar Expedition was an early 20th-century Russian Arctic exploration mission led by Eduard Toll that sought to chart and study the high-latitude regions of the Arctic Ocean and its islands.
  • 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: United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873)
Triple: [Robeson Channel, exploredDuring, United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873)]
Generated description
The United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873) was an American Arctic exploration mission led by Charles Francis Hall that sought to reach the North Pole but became infamous for Hall’s mysterious death and the crew’s subsequent struggle for survival on drifting ice floes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873)
Target entity description: The United States Polaris Expedition (1871–1873) was an American Arctic exploration mission led by Charles Francis Hall that sought to reach the North Pole but became infamous for Hall’s mysterious death and the crew’s subsequent struggle for survival on drifting ice floes.
  • A. United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842)
    The United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) was a major U.S. naval and scientific voyage that conducted extensive exploration and surveying of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding regions, significantly advancing 19th-century geography, natural history, and cartography.
  • B. Jeannette Arctic expedition
    The Jeannette Arctic expedition was a late 19th-century U.S. Navy voyage that ended in disaster when its ship became trapped and crushed by ice while attempting to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait.
  • C. Fram expedition 1893–1896
    The Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering Arctic voyage that attempted to reach the North Pole by intentionally freezing the ship Fram into the polar ice and drifting with it across the Arctic Ocean.
  • D. Chelyuskin expedition
    The Chelyuskin expedition was a 1933–1934 Soviet Arctic voyage whose ship became trapped and crushed by ice, leading to a dramatic mass rescue that became a major propaganda triumph for the USSR.
  • E. Russian Polar Expedition
    The Russian Polar Expedition was an early 20th-century Russian Arctic exploration mission led by Eduard Toll that sought to chart and study the high-latitude regions of the Arctic Ocean and its islands.
  • 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_69d8dcfc3430819095ee6fc0eb4c06a5 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c3d06ef481908bba297d7a1fd011 completed April 20, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0582af0e44819084b87fe5a00ef336 completed May 14, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a058696fc408190b63bfd77c4f23e0b completed May 14, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0587056df08190b9fae9bbcec12a64 completed May 14, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:57 a.m.