Triple

T23479833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Escalante River E570372 entity
Predicate discoveredByEuropeans P412 FINISHED
Object Domínguez–Escalante expedition
The Domínguez–Escalante expedition was a 1776 Spanish exploratory journey led by Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante that sought an overland route from New Mexico to California and extensively mapped parts of the American Southwest.
E1588448 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: Domínguez–Escalante expedition | Statement: [Escalante River, discoveredByEuropeans, Domínguez–Escalante expedition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Domínguez–Escalante expedition
Context triple: [Escalante River, discoveredByEuropeans, Domínguez–Escalante expedition]
  • A. Steptoe Expedition
    The Steptoe Expedition was an 1858 U.S. Army campaign led by Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe in the Pacific Northwest that culminated in a significant defeat by Native American forces near present-day Rosalia, Washington.
  • B. Coronado expedition (1540–1542)
    The Coronado expedition (1540–1542) was a large Spanish-led overland journey through the American Southwest in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, which resulted instead in the first extensive European exploration of the region.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Juan Bautista de Anza expedition settlers
    Juan Bautista de Anza expedition settlers were Spanish colonial pioneers who journeyed overland from New Spain to Alta California in the 1770s, establishing some of the region’s earliest civilian communities.
  • E. Stephen Harriman Long expedition
    The Stephen Harriman Long expedition was a U.S. government-sponsored early 19th-century exploratory journey that surveyed the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions, significantly shaping American geographic and scientific understanding of the 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: Domínguez–Escalante expedition
Triple: [Escalante River, discoveredByEuropeans, Domínguez–Escalante expedition]
Generated description
The Domínguez–Escalante expedition was a 1776 Spanish exploratory journey led by Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante that sought an overland route from New Mexico to California and extensively mapped parts of the American Southwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Domínguez–Escalante expedition
Target entity description: The Domínguez–Escalante expedition was a 1776 Spanish exploratory journey led by Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante that sought an overland route from New Mexico to California and extensively mapped parts of the American Southwest.
  • A. Steptoe Expedition
    The Steptoe Expedition was an 1858 U.S. Army campaign led by Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe in the Pacific Northwest that culminated in a significant defeat by Native American forces near present-day Rosalia, Washington.
  • B. Coronado expedition (1540–1542)
    The Coronado expedition (1540–1542) was a large Spanish-led overland journey through the American Southwest in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, which resulted instead in the first extensive European exploration of the region.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Juan Bautista de Anza expedition settlers
    Juan Bautista de Anza expedition settlers were Spanish colonial pioneers who journeyed overland from New Spain to Alta California in the 1770s, establishing some of the region’s earliest civilian communities.
  • E. Stephen Harriman Long expedition
    The Stephen Harriman Long expedition was a U.S. government-sponsored early 19th-century exploratory journey that surveyed the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions, significantly shaping American geographic and scientific understanding of the 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_69e245af8a88819084f2704f6d265a92 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a74f48d8819080e875aaea8b46b3 completed April 29, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c8266463881908b57b239baf344c0 completed May 19, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ca6f06a348190bfdba0452077f45b completed May 19, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ca7c5176c81908221307bb50ff4ed completed May 19, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:02 p.m.