Triple

T4177084
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houston METRORail E86502 entity
Predicate fareMedium P1303 FINISHED
Object METRO Q Card
The METRO Q Card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used to pay for rides on Houston’s METRO public transit system.
E416831 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: METRO Q Card | Statement: [Houston METRORail, fareMedium, METRO Q Card]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: METRO Q Card
Context triple: [Houston METRORail, fareMedium, METRO Q Card]
  • A. Metro TAP card
    The Metro TAP card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used for contactless payment across the Los Angeles County public transit system.
  • B. MetroCard
    MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
  • C. SmarTrip
    SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
  • D. Breeze Card
    The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • E. Opal card
    The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
  • 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: METRO Q Card
Triple: [Houston METRORail, fareMedium, METRO Q Card]
Generated description
The METRO Q Card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used to pay for rides on Houston’s METRO public transit system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: METRO Q Card
Target entity description: The METRO Q Card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used to pay for rides on Houston’s METRO public transit system.
  • A. Metro TAP card
    The Metro TAP card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used for contactless payment across the Los Angeles County public transit system.
  • B. MetroCard
    MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
  • C. SmarTrip
    SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
  • D. Breeze Card
    The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • E. Opal card
    The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
  • 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_69aed93de98c8190ad838ce507b77c8a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af02ec20fc8190b6f30576337e0ddc completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f57509881909d0353a48d868f5d completed March 14, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b57fbb037481908b2891e3af32e6e5 completed March 14, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58016777c8190a3e73ab96907e3a3 completed March 14, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.