Triple

T202531
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Department of Transportation Act E4535 entity
Predicate definesOffice P1839 FINISHED
Object Deputy Secretary of Transportation
The Deputy Secretary of Transportation is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for assisting the Secretary in overseeing national transportation policy and the department’s operations.
E26352 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: Deputy Secretary of Transportation | Statement: [Department of Transportation Act, definesOffice, Deputy Secretary of Transportation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Context triple: [Department of Transportation Act, definesOffice, Deputy Secretary of Transportation]
  • A. United States Secretary of Transportation
    The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for overseeing national transportation policy, infrastructure, and safety across air, land, and sea.
  • B. United States Deputy Attorney General
    The United States Deputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice, responsible for overseeing its day-to-day operations and acting as the Attorney General’s principal deputy.
  • C. Under Secretary for International Affairs
    The Under Secretary for International Affairs is a senior U.S. Treasury official responsible for formulating and coordinating the United States’ international economic and financial policy, including engagement with foreign governments and global financial institutions.
  • D. Under Secretary for Domestic Finance
    The Under Secretary for Domestic Finance is a senior U.S. Treasury official responsible for overseeing federal financial policy, debt management, financial institutions, and capital markets within the United States.
  • E. United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
    The United States Deputy Secretary of Defense is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Defense, responsible for overseeing its day-to-day operations and acting as the principal deputy to the Secretary of Defense.
  • 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: Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Triple: [Department of Transportation Act, definesOffice, Deputy Secretary of Transportation]
Generated description
The Deputy Secretary of Transportation is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for assisting the Secretary in overseeing national transportation policy and the department’s operations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Target entity description: The Deputy Secretary of Transportation is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for assisting the Secretary in overseeing national transportation policy and the department’s operations.
  • A. United States Secretary of Transportation
    The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for overseeing national transportation policy, infrastructure, and safety across air, land, and sea.
  • B. United States Deputy Attorney General
    The United States Deputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice, responsible for overseeing its day-to-day operations and acting as the Attorney General’s principal deputy.
  • C. Under Secretary for International Affairs
    The Under Secretary for International Affairs is a senior U.S. Treasury official responsible for formulating and coordinating the United States’ international economic and financial policy, including engagement with foreign governments and global financial institutions.
  • D. Under Secretary for Domestic Finance
    The Under Secretary for Domestic Finance is a senior U.S. Treasury official responsible for overseeing federal financial policy, debt management, financial institutions, and capital markets within the United States.
  • E. United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
    The United States Deputy Secretary of Defense is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Defense, responsible for overseeing its day-to-day operations and acting as the principal deputy to the Secretary of Defense.
  • 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_69a25737567c81908f9c505300239181 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25be7337481909f4937fc1a06fb53 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a32bc77734819095e6cf53a10aa3d8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a32c29d99081908ed22bfb073ad5bd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a32cc49eb08190ad97fdd8ead436f7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.