Triple

T11953459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Butterfield E284486 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Butterfield Overland Mail E324234 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Butterfield Overland Mail | Statement: [John Butterfield, notableWork, Butterfield Overland Mail]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Butterfield Overland Mail
Context triple: [John Butterfield, notableWork, Butterfield Overland Mail]
  • A. Butterfield Overland Mail chosen
    Butterfield Overland Mail was a 19th-century stagecoach service that carried mail and passengers across the United States on one of the earliest transcontinental routes before the advent of the transcontinental railroad.
  • B. Southern Pacific Overland Route
    The Southern Pacific Overland Route was a major transcontinental rail line in the United States that connected California with the Midwest and East, serving as a key artery for both passenger and freight traffic.
  • C. Pony Express
    The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
  • D. Union Pacific Overland Route
    The Union Pacific Overland Route was a premier transcontinental rail line that served as a primary passenger and freight corridor across the western United States.
  • E. The Overland Route
    The Overland Route is a 19th-century stage play by British dramatist Tom Taylor, best known as a comic drama set against the backdrop of transcontinental travel.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d6ab2db38c8190b1f0ed6663ef8ada completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90365da288190a132703df563de23 completed April 10, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4590584608190bc00840c43f115a0 completed May 1, 2026, 7:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.