Triple

T3035034
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company E82987 entity
Predicate competedWith P1375 FINISHED
Object Butterfield Overland Mail
Butterfield Overland Mail was a 19th-century stagecoach service that carried mail and passengers across the United States on one of the earliest transcontinental routes before the advent of the transcontinental railroad.
E324234 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: Butterfield Overland Mail | Statement: [Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, competedWith, Butterfield Overland Mail]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Butterfield Overland Mail
Context triple: [Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, competedWith, Butterfield Overland Mail]
  • A. Pony Express
    The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
  • B. Mormon Trail
    The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
  • C. San Francisco Overland Limited
    The San Francisco Overland Limited was a prominent early 20th-century transcontinental passenger train that connected Chicago and San Francisco, operated by the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
  • D. California Zephyr
    The California Zephyr is a long-distance passenger train route in the United States that runs through the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada, often regarded as one of the most scenic rail journeys in North America.
  • E. Butterfield
    Butterfield is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals across politics, sports, and the arts.
  • 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: Butterfield Overland Mail
Triple: [Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, competedWith, Butterfield Overland Mail]
Generated description
Butterfield Overland Mail was a 19th-century stagecoach service that carried mail and passengers across the United States on one of the earliest transcontinental routes before the advent of the transcontinental railroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Butterfield Overland Mail
Target entity description: Butterfield Overland Mail was a 19th-century stagecoach service that carried mail and passengers across the United States on one of the earliest transcontinental routes before the advent of the transcontinental railroad.
  • A. Pony Express
    The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
  • B. Mormon Trail
    The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
  • C. San Francisco Overland Limited
    The San Francisco Overland Limited was a prominent early 20th-century transcontinental passenger train that connected Chicago and San Francisco, operated by the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
  • D. California Zephyr
    The California Zephyr is a long-distance passenger train route in the United States that runs through the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada, often regarded as one of the most scenic rail journeys in North America.
  • E. Butterfield
    Butterfield is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals across politics, sports, and the arts.
  • 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_69ad8b21a62881908ec5dd4fba4a187c completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9b2a40b48190bfa7cdbb0fbd87f8 completed March 8, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f86cfcac81908122f1afd79ce29a completed March 11, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f8d3ff288190bd79bfc99d06c3ca completed March 11, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f94b3e3c8190b8ce0531a7c54902 completed March 11, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.