Triple

T11953462
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Butterfield E284486 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Butterfield Overland Mail Company 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 Company | Statement: [John Butterfield, founded, Butterfield Overland Mail Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Butterfield Overland Mail Company
Context triple: [John Butterfield, founded, Butterfield Overland Mail Company]
  • 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. Federal Passenger Company
    Federal Passenger Company is a major Russian rail operator responsible for long-distance passenger train services across Russia and neighboring countries.
  • C. Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company
    The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company was a 19th-century American transportation and mail service firm best known for running the famed Pony Express across the western United States.
  • D. San Francisco Overland Limited
    The San Francisco Overland Limited was a prominent early 20th-century transcontinental passenger train that connected Chicago and San Francisco, operated by the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
  • E. 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.
  • 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.