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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Boilermakers
Boilermakers is the nickname for Purdue University's athletic teams and, more broadly, a moniker for the university’s students and alumni.
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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.
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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.