Triple
T3035070
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | transcontinental telegraph |
E82988
|
entity |
| Predicate | builtBy |
P972
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Overland Telegraph Company of California |
E320216
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Overland Telegraph Company of California | Statement: [transcontinental telegraph, builtBy, Overland Telegraph Company of California]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Overland Telegraph Company of California Context triple: [transcontinental telegraph, builtBy, Overland Telegraph Company of California]
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A.
Pacific Telegraph Company
chosen
The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
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B.
Great Northern Telegraph Company
The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
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C.
Los Angeles Railway
Los Angeles Railway was a historic streetcar transit system that operated an extensive network of urban rail lines in Los Angeles during the first half of the 20th century.
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D.
Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Railroad was a major American railroad company that operated extensive rail networks across the western and southwestern United States from the 19th to the late 20th century.
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E.
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was a historic rail line in Northern California that connected the San Francisco Bay Area to communities throughout Marin, Sonoma, and Humboldt counties, supporting regional passenger and freight transport.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69b1eeeeff988190bb664c75d54d93d8 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.