Triple

T14915633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Lakes schooners E371373 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Great Lakes bulk freighters
Great Lakes bulk freighters are large cargo ships specifically designed to transport bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal, and grain across the North American Great Lakes.
E1127242 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: Great Lakes bulk freighters | Statement: [Great Lakes schooners, followedBy, Great Lakes bulk freighters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Lakes bulk freighters
Context triple: [Great Lakes schooners, followedBy, Great Lakes bulk freighters]
  • A. Great Lakes steamships
    Great Lakes steamships were powered vessels that replaced sail-driven ships on North America’s Great Lakes, carrying passengers and bulk cargo such as iron ore, coal, and grain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Great Lakes schooners
    Great Lakes schooners were traditionally-rigged wooden sailing vessels used for cargo and transport across the Great Lakes during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Lake Michigan rail car ferries
    Lake Michigan rail car ferries were specialized ships that transported railroad freight cars across Lake Michigan, providing a vital shortcut and year-round link between Midwestern rail networks.
  • D. Great Lakes port system
    The Great Lakes port system is a network of interconnected commercial and industrial ports on the North American Great Lakes that supports regional and international shipping, trade, and transportation.
  • E. Great Lakes Works
    Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
  • 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: Great Lakes bulk freighters
Triple: [Great Lakes schooners, followedBy, Great Lakes bulk freighters]
Generated description
Great Lakes bulk freighters are large cargo ships specifically designed to transport bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal, and grain across the North American Great Lakes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Lakes bulk freighters
Target entity description: Great Lakes bulk freighters are large cargo ships specifically designed to transport bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal, and grain across the North American Great Lakes.
  • A. Great Lakes steamships chosen
    Great Lakes steamships were powered vessels that replaced sail-driven ships on North America’s Great Lakes, carrying passengers and bulk cargo such as iron ore, coal, and grain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Great Lakes schooners
    Great Lakes schooners were traditionally-rigged wooden sailing vessels used for cargo and transport across the Great Lakes during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Lake Michigan rail car ferries
    Lake Michigan rail car ferries were specialized ships that transported railroad freight cars across Lake Michigan, providing a vital shortcut and year-round link between Midwestern rail networks.
  • D. Great Lakes port system
    The Great Lakes port system is a network of interconnected commercial and industrial ports on the North American Great Lakes that supports regional and international shipping, trade, and transportation.
  • E. Great Lakes Works
    Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85cc7ea3481908228b5acb7d06f12 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded61f1d488190995f847f84d72cdc completed April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe7e86ce888190b03056db39438701 completed May 9, 2026, 12:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe7f6df97c8190a29013abcf37aa40 completed May 9, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe802ce7108190b4c1e46be0c0fbd5 completed May 9, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:28 a.m.