Triple

T17252096
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject METRO (Houston) E418780 entity
Predicate operatesSystem P3941 FINISHED
Object METRO Bus
METRO Bus is the primary public bus transit service in the Houston metropolitan area, providing local, express, and park-and-ride routes across the region.
 E1259039 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: METRO Bus | Statement: [METRO (Houston), operatesSystem, METRO Bus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: METRO Bus
Context triple: [METRO (Houston), operatesSystem, METRO Bus]
  • A. Metrobus
    Metrobus is Istanbul’s bus rapid transit system that runs on dedicated lanes to provide fast, high-capacity public transportation across the city.
  • B. Metrobus
    Metrobus is Istanbul’s dedicated bus rapid transit system that runs on exclusive lanes to provide fast, high-capacity public transportation across the city.
  • C. Metrobus
    Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
  • D. Metrobus
    Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
  • E. Metrobus
    Metrobus is a British bus operator providing local and regional bus services, primarily in Southeast England.
  • 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: METRO Bus
Triple: [METRO (Houston), operatesSystem, METRO Bus]
Generated description
METRO Bus is the primary public bus transit service in the Houston metropolitan area, providing local, express, and park-and-ride routes across the region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: METRO Bus
Target entity description: METRO Bus is the primary public bus transit service in the Houston metropolitan area, providing local, express, and park-and-ride routes across the region.
  • A. Metrobus
    Metrobus is a British bus operator providing local and regional bus services, primarily in Southeast England.
  • B. Metrobus
    Metrobus is Istanbul’s bus rapid transit system that runs on dedicated lanes to provide fast, high-capacity public transportation across the city.
  • C. Metrobus
    Metrobus is Istanbul’s dedicated bus rapid transit system that runs on exclusive lanes to provide fast, high-capacity public transportation across the city.
  • D. Metrobus
    Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
  • E. Metrobus
    Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
  • 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_69d886d9ab108190b70edd8d17aa1204 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42e694f788190a1c86e95264ed2fe completed April 19, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0170fb89248190ae431ce51dfeaffd completed May 11, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a017258cb9c8190baa828104d30fdbf completed May 11, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a017620d2d8819099292be7bc4db4df completed May 11, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:39 a.m.