Triple

T2541573
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seattle city government E57795 entity
Predicate hasDepartment P35 FINISHED
Object Seattle Department of Transportation
The Seattle Department of Transportation is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and services.
E277538 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 Department of Transportation | Statement: [Seattle city government, hasDepartment, Seattle Department of Transportation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seattle Department of Transportation
Context triple: [Seattle city government, hasDepartment, Seattle Department of Transportation]
  • A. Portland Bureau of Transportation
    The Portland Bureau of Transportation is the city agency responsible for planning, building, managing, and maintaining Portland, Oregon’s transportation infrastructure and services.
  • B. Seattle city government
    The Seattle city government is the municipal authority responsible for governing the city of Seattle, Washington, overseeing local services, policies, and administration.
  • C. Seattle City Council
    The Seattle City Council is the legislative body of the City of Seattle, responsible for passing laws, approving budgets, and overseeing municipal policies and services.
  • D. Metro Transit
    Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Department of Transportation
Triple: [Seattle city government, hasDepartment, Seattle Department of Transportation]
Generated description
The Seattle Department of Transportation is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and services.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seattle Department of Transportation
Target entity description: The Seattle Department of Transportation is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and services.
  • A. Portland Bureau of Transportation
    The Portland Bureau of Transportation is the city agency responsible for planning, building, managing, and maintaining Portland, Oregon’s transportation infrastructure and services.
  • B. Seattle city government
    The Seattle city government is the municipal authority responsible for governing the city of Seattle, Washington, overseeing local services, policies, and administration.
  • C. Seattle City Council
    The Seattle City Council is the legislative body of the City of Seattle, responsible for passing laws, approving budgets, and overseeing municipal policies and services.
  • D. Metro Transit
    Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ab4a5212d88190b989ce129f2ad87f completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd2bd92f88190bf100c799f62210c completed March 7, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5d046430819095605b8a8fd987d5 completed March 9, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5f4be20c8190a0da1a25c7b097b8 completed March 10, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5fe06e6881908e0b11f3101cb0f0 completed March 10, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.