Triple
T13270886
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Transcontinental Air Transport |
E316050
|
entity |
| Predicate | mergedWith |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Western Air Express |
E322884
|
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: Western Air Express | Statement: [Transcontinental Air Transport, mergedWith, Western Air Express]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Air Express Context triple: [Transcontinental Air Transport, mergedWith, Western Air Express]
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A.
Western Air Express
chosen
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.
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B.
Maddux Air Lines
Maddux Air Lines was an early American airline of the late 1920s that operated scheduled passenger services, notably in California, and later merged into Transcontinental Air Transport.
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C.
Union Airways
Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
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D.
Varney Air Lines
Varney Air Lines was an early U.S. airmail and passenger carrier that became one of the key predecessors of modern United Airlines.
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E.
McGee Airways
McGee Airways was an early Alaskan airline founded in the 1930s that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what is now Alaska Airlines.
- 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_69f71f1c2bac81909ac13624f7972919 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 10:10 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:26 p.m.