Triple
T16171505
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Russell, Majors and Waddell |
E392447
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableProject |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pony Express |
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: Pony Express | Statement: [Russell, Majors and Waddell, notableProject, Pony Express]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pony Express Context triple: [Russell, Majors and Waddell, notableProject, Pony Express]
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A.
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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B.
Butterfield Overland Mail
Butterfield Overland Mail was a 19th-century stagecoach service that carried mail and passengers across the United States on one of the earliest transcontinental routes before the advent of the transcontinental railroad.
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C.
Pony Express National Historic Trail
The Pony Express National Historic Trail is a protected route that commemorates the legendary 19th-century mail service between Missouri and California, preserving and interpreting its historic path and landmarks.
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D.
Twenty-mule teams
Twenty-mule teams were large mule-drawn wagon teams famously used in the late 19th century to haul borax from remote mines in Death Valley, California.
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E.
Overseas Railroad
The Overseas Railroad was a historic extension of the Florida East Coast Railway that connected mainland Florida to Key West across a series of long bridges over the Florida Keys.
- 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_69d87f1d32208190942e4e499a80c18c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e21eb7ab1481908fc35bfc8c56e5f2 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 11:51 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fff7bd87f08190a9f2a1524e5db2ba |
completed | May 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:02 a.m.