Triple

T3482464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Neale E73524 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Neale’s Patent for North American postal services
Neale’s Patent for North American postal services was a late 17th-century English crown grant that gave Thomas Neale the exclusive right to establish and operate a centralized postal system across the North American colonies.
E360858 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: Neale’s Patent for North American postal services | Statement: [Thomas Neale, notableWork, Neale’s Patent for North American postal services]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Neale’s Patent for North American postal services
Context triple: [Thomas Neale, notableWork, Neale’s Patent for North American postal services]
  • A. Acts of the Universal Postal Union
    The Acts of the Universal Postal Union are the foundational international treaties and regulations that govern the global postal system and define the rights and obligations of member countries.
  • B. Post Offices and Post Roads Clause
    The Post Offices and Post Roads Clause is a constitutional provision granting Congress the power to establish and regulate a national postal system and the routes over which mail is carried.
  • C. The Postal Service
    The Postal Service is an American indie pop/electronic music project best known for its 2003 album "Give Up" and its collaboration between Ben Gibbard and producer Jimmy Tamborello.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860
    The Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 was a U.S. federal law that authorized and funded the construction of a telegraph line linking the eastern states with the Pacific Coast, helping to unify national communication before the Civil War.
  • 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: Neale’s Patent for North American postal services
Triple: [Thomas Neale, notableWork, Neale’s Patent for North American postal services]
Generated description
Neale’s Patent for North American postal services was a late 17th-century English crown grant that gave Thomas Neale the exclusive right to establish and operate a centralized postal system across the North American colonies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Neale’s Patent for North American postal services
Target entity description: Neale’s Patent for North American postal services was a late 17th-century English crown grant that gave Thomas Neale the exclusive right to establish and operate a centralized postal system across the North American colonies.
  • A. Acts of the Universal Postal Union
    The Acts of the Universal Postal Union are the foundational international treaties and regulations that govern the global postal system and define the rights and obligations of member countries.
  • B. Post Offices and Post Roads Clause
    The Post Offices and Post Roads Clause is a constitutional provision granting Congress the power to establish and regulate a national postal system and the routes over which mail is carried.
  • C. The Postal Service
    The Postal Service is an American indie pop/electronic music project best known for its 2003 album "Give Up" and its collaboration between Ben Gibbard and producer Jimmy Tamborello.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860
    The Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 was a U.S. federal law that authorized and funded the construction of a telegraph line linking the eastern states with the Pacific Coast, helping to unify national communication before the Civil War.
  • 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_69ad85b3c9b08190857cae74c7f36da9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb76b5188190bf8f8a3f646a7184 completed March 8, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3681e88d881908a2eeb93aa56d889 completed March 13, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b368a242448190ac61e806b42a0cf3 completed March 13, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3693bc26c819093ba7f9757ba0665 completed March 13, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.