Triple
T13435452
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 |
E320217
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedTo |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Overland telegraph |
E82988
|
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: Overland telegraph | Statement: [Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860, relatedTo, Overland telegraph]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Overland telegraph Context triple: [Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860, relatedTo, Overland telegraph]
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A.
Overland Telegraph Line
The Overland Telegraph Line was a 19th-century communication link that connected Australia to the global telegraph network by running across the continent from south to north.
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B.
Cape to Cairo Telegraph line
The Cape to Cairo Telegraph line was a British imperial communications project aiming to connect South Africa to Egypt by telegraph, symbolizing efforts to link the African continent under colonial rule.
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C.
transcontinental telegraph
chosen
The transcontinental telegraph was the first coast-to-coast telegraph system in the United States, enabling near-instant communication across the country and rendering long-distance mail services like the Pony Express obsolete.
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D.
Hughes telegraph system
The Hughes telegraph system was an early electrical telegraph apparatus that used a printing mechanism to automatically record messages, significantly improving the speed and legibility of telegraphic communication in the 19th century.
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E.
Télégraphe
Télégraphe is a Paris Métro station in the 20th arrondissement, named after the nearby historical telegraph tower site.
- 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbaee42a8c8190a85716b4a6db335e |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f739902d148190ac14ac66f1f9512f |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:03 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.