Triple
T16644316
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Hepburn Russell |
E404424
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United States Post Office Department |
E13972
|
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: United States Post Office Department | Statement: [William Hepburn Russell, associatedWith, United States Post Office Department]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Post Office Department Context triple: [William Hepburn Russell, associatedWith, United States Post Office Department]
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A.
Post Office Department
chosen
The Post Office Department was the former cabinet-level agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for national mail delivery before its functions were transferred to the United States Postal Service in 1971.
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B.
Postmaster-General's Department
The Postmaster-General's Department was the former Australian government agency responsible for managing the nation's postal and telecommunications services before its functions were transferred to separate entities such as Australia Post.
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C.
United States Post Office
The United States Post Office is the federal postal service of the United States, responsible for nationwide mail collection, processing, and delivery.
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D.
Confederate States Post Office Department
The Confederate States Post Office Department was the postal system of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, responsible for managing mail delivery and related services across the seceded Southern states.
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E.
The Postal Service
The Postal Service is an American indie pop/electronic music project best known for its 2003 album "Give Up" and its collaboration between Ben Gibbard and producer Jimmy Tamborello.
- 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_69d8838a41f08190b0c3f79c47df5078 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e37ad3b12c8190a32e33d9ecff9dae |
completed | April 18, 2026, 12:36 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0084bd1b648190b6189533dcd7b9ac |
completed | May 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.