Triple
T13574002
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Butterfield Overland Mail |
E324234
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Overland Mail Company |
E11796
|
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 Mail Company | Statement: [Butterfield Overland Mail, alsoKnownAs, Overland Mail Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Overland Mail Company Context triple: [Butterfield Overland Mail, alsoKnownAs, Overland Mail Company]
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A.
Adams Express Company
Adams Express Company was one of the earliest and largest American express and freight delivery firms of the 19th century, playing a major role in the development of commercial transportation and logistics in the United States.
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B.
American Messenger Company
American Messenger Company was the early 20th-century Seattle-based delivery firm that evolved into the global logistics giant United Parcel Service (UPS).
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C.
Pony Express
chosen
The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
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D.
Pacific Telegraph Company
The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
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E.
National Freight Corporation
National Freight Corporation was a major British state-owned road haulage and logistics company that played a central role in the UK’s freight transport industry in the mid-20th century.
- 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_69dbb02b1f108190a12af382d1de70bb |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:46 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.