Triple

T1792069
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Washington State Ferries E39517 entity
Predicate route P5619 FINISHED
Object Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic)
Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic) was a Washington State Ferries commuter-focused passenger-only ferry route that intermittently connected downtown Seattle with Vashon Island.
 E200512 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: Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic) | Statement: [Washington State Ferries, route, Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic)
Context triple: [Washington State Ferries, route, Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic)]
  • A. Washington State Ferries
    Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, operating a network of passenger and vehicle routes across the waterways of Washington State.
  • B. Everett Transit
    Everett Transit is the public bus transportation agency serving the city of Everett in Washington State.
  • C. Washington Island Ferry Line
    Washington Island Ferry Line is a ferry service that transports passengers, vehicles, and goods between Washington Island and the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.
  • D. Sound Transit
    Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
  • E. Golden Gate Transit
    Golden Gate Transit is a regional public bus and ferry system serving the North Bay and San Francisco in California.
  • 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: Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic)
Triple: [Washington State Ferries, route, Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic)]
Generated description
Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic) was a Washington State Ferries commuter-focused passenger-only ferry route that intermittently connected downtown Seattle with Vashon Island.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic)
Target entity description: Seattle–Vashon (passenger-only, historical/periodic) was a Washington State Ferries commuter-focused passenger-only ferry route that intermittently connected downtown Seattle with Vashon Island.
  • A. Washington State Ferries
    Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, operating a network of passenger and vehicle routes across the waterways of Washington State.
  • B. Everett Transit
    Everett Transit is the public bus transportation agency serving the city of Everett in Washington State.
  • C. Washington Island Ferry Line
    Washington Island Ferry Line is a ferry service that transports passengers, vehicles, and goods between Washington Island and the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.
  • D. Sound Transit
    Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
  • E. Golden Gate Transit
    Golden Gate Transit is a regional public bus and ferry system serving the North Bay and San Francisco in California.
  • 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_69a88631854081909723959921e45c2b completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa65392b2c81909bf4d619bd347f54 completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d26afc81909675064289d3a5b8 completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb69b142c81909dd8bd40e8e440ad completed March 8, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb8bac99081908cf126d42c609559 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.