Triple

T16470514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ulster Transport Authority E400046 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Ulsterbus
Ulsterbus is a public bus operator in Northern Ireland that provides regional and intercity passenger transport services across the province.
 E1215486 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: Ulsterbus | Statement: [Ulster Transport Authority, successor, Ulsterbus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ulsterbus
Context triple: [Ulster Transport Authority, successor, Ulsterbus]
  • A. Bus Éireann
    Bus Éireann is Ireland’s national bus company, providing intercity, regional, and local bus services across the country.
  • B. Ulster Transport Authority
    The Ulster Transport Authority was a government-owned body responsible for operating and overseeing public transport services, including railways and buses, in Northern Ireland from the late 1940s until the late 1960s.
  • C. Dublin Bus
    Dublin Bus is the main public bus operator in Dublin, Ireland, providing extensive urban and suburban services across the city and surrounding areas.
  • D. Irish Ferries
    Irish Ferries is a major Irish ferry company operating passenger and freight services across the Irish Sea and to continental Europe.
  • E. Iarnród Éireann
    Iarnród Éireann is the national railway operator of Ireland, responsible for most passenger and freight rail services across the country.
  • 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: Ulsterbus
Triple: [Ulster Transport Authority, successor, Ulsterbus]
Generated description
Ulsterbus is a public bus operator in Northern Ireland that provides regional and intercity passenger transport services across the province.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ulsterbus
Target entity description: Ulsterbus is a public bus operator in Northern Ireland that provides regional and intercity passenger transport services across the province.
  • A. Bus Éireann
    Bus Éireann is Ireland’s national bus company, providing intercity, regional, and local bus services across the country.
  • B. Ulster Transport Authority
    The Ulster Transport Authority was a government-owned body responsible for operating and overseeing public transport services, including railways and buses, in Northern Ireland from the late 1940s until the late 1960s.
  • C. Dublin Bus
    Dublin Bus is the main public bus operator in Dublin, Ireland, providing extensive urban and suburban services across the city and surrounding areas.
  • D. Irish Ferries
    Irish Ferries is a major Irish ferry company operating passenger and freight services across the Irish Sea and to continental Europe.
  • E. Iarnród Éireann
    Iarnród Éireann is the national railway operator of Ireland, responsible for most passenger and freight rail services across the country.
  • 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_69d87f2dac988190b74d6e185fa88ba4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32dd0d2fc81909b68b5afb00f192f completed April 18, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004f5af4308190bd023624de35027f completed May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0050c5d4548190a674c1c19f08a9fd completed May 10, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0051a7ae208190b33d42cc8d4bb21f completed May 10, 2026, 9:36 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:11 a.m.