Triple

T12655155
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Transportation in Roanoke County, Virginia E302260 entity
Predicate servedByTransitAgency P1288 FINISHED
Object Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company)
Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company) is the primary public bus transit provider for the Roanoke, Virginia metropolitan area.
E994531 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: Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company) | Statement: [Transportation in Roanoke County, Virginia, servedByTransitAgency, Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company)
Context triple: [Transportation in Roanoke County, Virginia, servedByTransitAgency, Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company)]
  • A. Helena Area Transit System
    Helena Area Transit System is the primary public bus service providing local transportation within Helena, Montana.
  • B. Charlotte Area Transit System
    Charlotte Area Transit System is the primary public transportation agency serving the Charlotte metropolitan area with bus, light rail, and other transit services.
  • C. Valley Metro
    Valley Metro is the regional public transportation system serving the Phoenix metropolitan area, operating bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
  • D. SouthWest Transit
    SouthWest Transit is a public transportation agency serving suburban communities in the southwest Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota.
  • E. Manchester Transit Authority
    Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
  • 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: Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company)
Triple: [Transportation in Roanoke County, Virginia, servedByTransitAgency, Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company)]
Generated description
Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company) is the primary public bus transit provider for the Roanoke, Virginia metropolitan area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company)
Target entity description: Valley Metro (Greater Roanoke Transit Company) is the primary public bus transit provider for the Roanoke, Virginia metropolitan area.
  • A. Helena Area Transit System
    Helena Area Transit System is the primary public bus service providing local transportation within Helena, Montana.
  • B. Charlotte Area Transit System
    Charlotte Area Transit System is the primary public transportation agency serving the Charlotte metropolitan area with bus, light rail, and other transit services.
  • C. Valley Metro
    Valley Metro is the regional public transportation system serving the Phoenix metropolitan area, operating bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
  • D. SouthWest Transit
    SouthWest Transit is a public transportation agency serving suburban communities in the southwest Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota.
  • E. Manchester Transit Authority
    Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
  • 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_69d7bded71a88190bb76e2413af9ea66 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d961620b188190a8a8569f1133a9cf completed April 10, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f668832c7081909eb75429efba493e completed May 2, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6697d8ac88190b4ead9ce47f3a705 completed May 2, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f66a2fa350819091f12e16d59c2278 completed May 2, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:18 p.m.