Triple

T2572420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject UTDC ICTS Mark I vehicles E57693 entity
Predicate operatedBy P86 FINISHED
Object Detroit Transportation Corporation
Detroit Transportation Corporation is the public agency that owns and operates Detroit's downtown People Mover automated transit system.
E280563 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: Detroit Transportation Corporation | Statement: [UTDC ICTS Mark I vehicles, operatedBy, Detroit Transportation Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Detroit Transportation Corporation
Context triple: [UTDC ICTS Mark I vehicles, operatedBy, Detroit Transportation Corporation]
  • A. Manchester Transit Authority
    Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
  • B. Chicago Surface Lines
    Chicago Surface Lines was a privately operated streetcar and bus system that provided most of Chicago’s surface public transportation in the first half of the 20th century.
  • C. Chicago Rapid Transit Company
    The Chicago Rapid Transit Company was the private operator of Chicago’s elevated “L” rail system in the early 20th century before public transit was consolidated under the Chicago Transit Authority.
  • D. First Transit
    First Transit is a North American public transportation management and contracting company that operates and maintains bus, paratransit, shuttle, and other transit services for municipalities and organizations.
  • E. Chicago Transit Authority
    The Chicago Transit Authority is the primary public transportation agency serving Chicago and several surrounding suburbs, operating the city’s extensive network of buses and rapid transit trains.
  • 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: Detroit Transportation Corporation
Triple: [UTDC ICTS Mark I vehicles, operatedBy, Detroit Transportation Corporation]
Generated description
Detroit Transportation Corporation is the public agency that owns and operates Detroit's downtown People Mover automated transit system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Detroit Transportation Corporation
Target entity description: Detroit Transportation Corporation is the public agency that owns and operates Detroit's downtown People Mover automated transit system.
  • A. Manchester Transit Authority
    Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
  • B. Chicago Surface Lines
    Chicago Surface Lines was a privately operated streetcar and bus system that provided most of Chicago’s surface public transportation in the first half of the 20th century.
  • C. Chicago Rapid Transit Company
    The Chicago Rapid Transit Company was the private operator of Chicago’s elevated “L” rail system in the early 20th century before public transit was consolidated under the Chicago Transit Authority.
  • D. First Transit
    First Transit is a North American public transportation management and contracting company that operates and maintains bus, paratransit, shuttle, and other transit services for municipalities and organizations.
  • E. Chicago Transit Authority
    The Chicago Transit Authority is the primary public transportation agency serving Chicago and several surrounding suburbs, operating the city’s extensive network of buses and rapid transit trains.
  • 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_69ab4a51410081908501dcf8bad9adc4 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd3853c848190970e8a2da16d726d completed March 7, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af657028f08190b461442bfc7489e1 completed March 10, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af6de00ff48190ba9198e91276ec3d completed March 10, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af6f55bbb481908f75d923caeb8a1c completed March 10, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:48 p.m.