Triple

T2588886
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pullman Palace Car Company E58070 entity
Predicate operated P1688 FINISHED
Object Pullman porters
Pullman porters were African American railroad workers who provided service to passengers on luxury sleeping cars and became a symbol of Black middle-class opportunity and early civil rights organizing in the United States.
E278606 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: Pullman porters | Statement: [Pullman Palace Car Company, operated, Pullman porters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pullman porters
Context triple: [Pullman Palace Car Company, operated, Pullman porters]
  • A. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
    The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first major African American labor union in the United States, representing railroad sleeping car porters and playing a key role in the broader civil rights and labor movements.
  • B. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • C. Boilermakers
    Boilermakers is the nickname for Purdue University's athletic teams and, more broadly, a moniker for the university’s students and alumni.
  • D. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • E. A. Philip Randolph Institute
    The A. Philip Randolph Institute is an African-American labor and civil rights organization that works to strengthen the political and economic power of Black workers, historically serving as a bridge between the labor movement and the civil rights movement.
  • 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: Pullman porters
Triple: [Pullman Palace Car Company, operated, Pullman porters]
Generated description
Pullman porters were African American railroad workers who provided service to passengers on luxury sleeping cars and became a symbol of Black middle-class opportunity and early civil rights organizing in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pullman porters
Target entity description: Pullman porters were African American railroad workers who provided service to passengers on luxury sleeping cars and became a symbol of Black middle-class opportunity and early civil rights organizing in the United States.
  • A. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
    The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first major African American labor union in the United States, representing railroad sleeping car porters and playing a key role in the broader civil rights and labor movements.
  • B. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • C. Boilermakers
    Boilermakers is the nickname for Purdue University's athletic teams and, more broadly, a moniker for the university’s students and alumni.
  • D. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • E. A. Philip Randolph Institute
    The A. Philip Randolph Institute is an African-American labor and civil rights organization that works to strengthen the political and economic power of Black workers, historically serving as a bridge between the labor movement and the civil rights movement.
  • 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_69ab4ac019c8819094add11c46706e32 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd3fd1d608190a0cf0d12a9e6ce59 completed March 7, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af658782f88190a83a4f7256d6a7b2 completed March 10, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af660bc6cc8190a98dca9632d5635d completed March 10, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af667f0458819091d88011f49dc1ae completed March 10, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:49 p.m.