Triple

T1380279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shipping Act of 1916 E29321 entity
Predicate createdAgency P3139 FINISHED
Object United States Shipping Board
The United States Shipping Board was a U.S. federal agency established during World War I to regulate and promote the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial ships.
 E158684 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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 Shipping Board | Statement: [Shipping Act of 1916, createdAgency, United States Shipping Board]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United States Shipping Board
Context triple: [Shipping Act of 1916, createdAgency, United States Shipping Board]
  • A. United States Maritime Commission
    The United States Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in the 1930s to develop, regulate, and expand the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial and auxiliary ships.
  • B. New York Shipbuilding Corporation
    New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. New England Shipbuilding Corporation
    New England Shipbuilding Corporation was a World War II-era American shipyard in South Portland, Maine, known for mass-producing Liberty ships for the U.S. war effort.
  • D. Newport News Shipbuilding
    Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
  • E. White Star Line
    White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company best known for operating the RMS Titanic and other famous ocean liners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: United States Shipping Board
Triple: [Shipping Act of 1916, createdAgency, United States Shipping Board]
Generated description
The United States Shipping Board was a U.S. federal agency established during World War I to regulate and promote the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial ships.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United States Shipping Board
Target entity description: The United States Shipping Board was a U.S. federal agency established during World War I to regulate and promote the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial ships.
  • A. United States Maritime Commission
    The United States Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in the 1930s to develop, regulate, and expand the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial and auxiliary ships.
  • B. New York Shipbuilding Corporation
    New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. New England Shipbuilding Corporation
    New England Shipbuilding Corporation was a World War II-era American shipyard in South Portland, Maine, known for mass-producing Liberty ships for the U.S. war effort.
  • D. Newport News Shipbuilding
    Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
  • E. White Star Line
    White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company best known for operating the RMS Titanic and other famous ocean liners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a498d883a48190bfdca525296ef7ee completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c319f46481909ba8a69a19b865e5 completed March 1, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd48a48fc81908b156c273cb5dfc0 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd77d879881908decae7056bfd277 completed March 8, 2026, 1:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd81c7c1081908b65ca5a57f8706e completed March 8, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.