Triple
T17716823
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pony Express |
E442220
|
entity |
| Predicate | operatedBy |
P86
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Russell, Majors and Waddell |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Russell, Majors and Waddell | Statement: [Pony Express, operatedBy, Russell, Majors and Waddell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell, Majors and Waddell Context triple: [Pony Express, operatedBy, Russell, Majors and Waddell]
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A.
Russell, Majors and Waddell
chosen
Russell, Majors and Waddell was a 19th-century American freight and transportation firm best known for operating the Pony Express across the western United States.
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B.
Colvin & Earle
Colvin & Earle is a collaborative folk and Americana album by singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle.
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C.
Russell W
Russell W is a small satellite impact crater on the Moon associated with the larger Russell crater on the lunar near side.
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D.
Frank Russell
Frank Russell was an American businessman best known for founding the Frank Russell Company, a prominent investment management and financial services firm.
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E.
Burnham and Root
Burnham and Root was a prominent late-19th-century Chicago architectural firm known for pioneering early skyscraper design and shaping the city’s post–Great Fire skyline.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9ec79688190b86bdcef85a7b3aa |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e47481663c8190a1110385e5596ab0 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 6:21 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:06 a.m.