Triple

T13573987
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butterfield Overland Mail E324234 entity
Predicate contractingAuthority P39031 FINISHED
Object United States Post Office Department E13972 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: United States Post Office Department | Statement: [Butterfield Overland Mail, contractingAuthority, United States Post Office Department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United States Post Office Department
Context triple: [Butterfield Overland Mail, contractingAuthority, United States Post Office Department]
  • A. Post Office Department chosen
    The Post Office Department was the former cabinet-level agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for national mail delivery before its functions were transferred to the United States Postal Service in 1971.
  • B. Confederate States Post Office Department
    The Confederate States Post Office Department was the postal system of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, responsible for managing mail delivery and related services across the seceded Southern states.
  • C. The Postal Service
    The Postal Service is an American indie pop/electronic music project best known for its 2003 album "Give Up" and its collaboration between Ben Gibbard and producer Jimmy Tamborello.
  • D. United States Postal Service
    The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for providing nationwide postal delivery and related mail services.
  • E. U.S. General Services Administration
    The U.S. General Services Administration is a federal agency that manages government buildings, procurement, and technology services to support the operations of other U.S. government agencies.
  • 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_69d80769100c819099111274614f5ed2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0106cb48190b20eb9bda131a68a completed April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f76bb827d48190958e5710d554cd04 completed May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:48 p.m.