Triple
T19053543
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | United Airlines |
E466328
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasPredecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Varney Air Lines |
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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: Varney Air Lines | Statement: [United Airlines, hasPredecessor, Varney Air Lines]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Varney Air Lines Context triple: [United Airlines, hasPredecessor, Varney Air Lines]
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A.
Varney Air Lines
chosen
Varney Air Lines was an early U.S. airmail and passenger carrier that became one of the key predecessors of modern United Airlines.
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B.
Maddux Air Lines
Maddux Air Lines was an early American airline of the late 1920s that operated scheduled passenger services, notably in California, and later merged into Transcontinental Air Transport.
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C.
New York Airways
New York Airways was a pioneering U.S. helicopter airline that provided scheduled passenger services in the New York City area during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Union Airways
Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
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E.
Western Air Express
Western Air Express was an early American airline that operated passenger and mail services in the western United States during the late 1920s and 1930s.
- 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_69d8dd040fb881909af2a964f65ad208 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5dc03dfa08190924a1b8073364fa1 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:55 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:03 p.m.