Triple

T2550931
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alaska Railroad E56622 entity
Predicate servesCity P82 FINISHED
Object Whittier
Whittier is a small port town in south-central Alaska known as a key gateway for marine and rail transportation, particularly for cruise ships and freight.
E335503 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: Whittier | Statement: [Alaska Railroad, servesCity, Whittier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whittier
Context triple: [Alaska Railroad, servesCity, Whittier]
  • A. Whittier
    Whittier is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, known for its historic downtown, Quaker roots, and as the namesake of Whittier College.
  • B. John Greenleaf Whittier
    John Greenleaf Whittier was a prominent 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist best known for his anti-slavery writings and New England regional verse.
  • C. William Cullen Bryant
    William Cullen Bryant was a 19th-century American poet and journalist, best known for his nature-themed poetry and as one of the prominent members of the Fireside Poets.
  • D. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a prominent 19th-century American poet and educator known for works such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline."
  • E. Halleck
    Halleck is a surname most notably associated with American political and military figures, including U.S. Congressman Charles A. Halleck and Civil War general Henry Wager Halleck.
  • 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: Whittier
Triple: [Alaska Railroad, servesCity, Whittier]
Generated description
Whittier is a small port town in south-central Alaska known as a key gateway for marine and rail transportation, particularly for cruise ships and freight.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whittier
Target entity description: Whittier is a small port town in south-central Alaska known as a key gateway for marine and rail transportation, particularly for cruise ships and freight.
  • A. Whittier
    Whittier is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, known for its historic downtown, Quaker roots, and as the namesake of Whittier College.
  • B. John Greenleaf Whittier
    John Greenleaf Whittier was a prominent 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist best known for his anti-slavery writings and New England regional verse.
  • C. William Cullen Bryant
    William Cullen Bryant was a 19th-century American poet and journalist, best known for his nature-themed poetry and as one of the prominent members of the Fireside Poets.
  • D. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a prominent 19th-century American poet and educator known for works such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline."
  • E. Halleck
    Halleck is a surname most notably associated with American political and military figures, including U.S. Congressman Charles A. Halleck and Civil War general Henry Wager Halleck.
  • 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_69ab4a4bfec081908039988ec4c86e28 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd2eaaf688190926a1104be12a540 completed March 7, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24ae086c88190ad5a0358ae9db689 completed March 12, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24c5154008190aaaf07333de85370 completed March 12, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b24cf888288190b02782467c932862 completed March 12, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:48 p.m.