Triple

T19461890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jedediah Smith E486892 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Smith, Jackson and Sublette
Smith, Jackson and Sublette was a prominent early 19th-century American fur trading company and Rocky Mountain trapping partnership co-founded by frontiersman Jedediah Smith.
E1377050 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: Smith, Jackson and Sublette | Statement: [Jedediah Smith, coFounded, Smith, Jackson and Sublette]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smith, Jackson and Sublette
Context triple: [Jedediah Smith, coFounded, Smith, Jackson and Sublette]
  • A. Jim Bridger
    Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
  • B. fur trader William Sublette
    William Sublette was a prominent early 19th-century American fur trader, explorer, and mountain man who played a key role in opening the Rocky Mountain West to overland travel and commerce.
  • C. John Cushon
    John Cushon is an American drummer best known as the longtime husband and musical collaborator of singer and pianist Oleta Adams.
  • D. William Lewis Sublette
    William Lewis Sublette was a prominent 19th-century American fur trader, frontiersman, and explorer who played a key role in opening the West along the Oregon Trail.
  • E. Jedediah Smith
    Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
  • 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: Smith, Jackson and Sublette
Triple: [Jedediah Smith, coFounded, Smith, Jackson and Sublette]
Generated description
Smith, Jackson and Sublette was a prominent early 19th-century American fur trading company and Rocky Mountain trapping partnership co-founded by frontiersman Jedediah Smith.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smith, Jackson and Sublette
Target entity description: Smith, Jackson and Sublette was a prominent early 19th-century American fur trading company and Rocky Mountain trapping partnership co-founded by frontiersman Jedediah Smith.
  • A. Jim Bridger
    Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
  • B. fur trader William Sublette
    William Sublette was a prominent early 19th-century American fur trader, explorer, and mountain man who played a key role in opening the Rocky Mountain West to overland travel and commerce.
  • C. John Cushon
    John Cushon is an American drummer best known as the longtime husband and musical collaborator of singer and pianist Oleta Adams.
  • D. William Lewis Sublette
    William Lewis Sublette was a prominent 19th-century American fur trader, frontiersman, and explorer who played a key role in opening the West along the Oregon Trail.
  • E. Jedediah Smith
    Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
  • 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_69d8e8d86d608190bd199a98d0297f27 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e633c983f481908b2684dc4380b889 completed April 20, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a073b3c3b948190b48b1aa046efb29a completed May 15, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a073c29752c8190b9ba3b0ebf5e5dd5 completed May 15, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a073d25ba448190a62777b68d2f3136 completed May 15, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:38 p.m.