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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.