Triple

T13270864
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Transcontinental Air Transport E316050 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Transcontinental & Western Air E1031600 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: Transcontinental & Western Air | Statement: [Transcontinental Air Transport, successor, Transcontinental & Western Air]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Transcontinental & Western Air
Context triple: [Transcontinental Air Transport, successor, Transcontinental & Western Air]
  • A. Transcontinental & Western Air chosen
    Transcontinental & Western Air was a major early U.S. airline that later evolved into Trans World Airlines (TWA), becoming one of the most prominent international carriers of the 20th century.
  • B. Pacific Western Airlines
    Pacific Western Airlines was a major Canadian regional and domestic carrier that operated from the mid-20th century until its 1987 merger into Canadian Airlines.
  • C. Transcontinental Air Transport
    Transcontinental Air Transport was an early U.S. airline of the late 1920s and early 1930s that pioneered coast-to-coast passenger service by combining rail and air travel.
  • D. Western Airlines
    Western Airlines was a major U.S. airline that operated primarily in the western United States and later internationally before merging with Delta Air Lines in 1987.
  • E. Western Air Express
    Western Air Express was an early American airline that operated passenger and mail services in the western United States during the late 1920s and 1930s.
  • 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_69d806b1d9ac8190852c5571d5bd5f0f completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99020f710819094c2618662bdc7fd completed April 11, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f716cd8c2c8190a28d901fde98dc26 completed May 3, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:26 p.m.