Triple

T7478581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USC Price School of Public Policy E176690 entity
Predicate hasResearchCenter P40 FINISHED
Object METRANS Transportation Consortium
METRANS Transportation Consortium is a university-based research center focused on advancing transportation policy, planning, and management through interdisciplinary research and education.
 E666976 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: METRANS Transportation Consortium | Statement: [USC Price School of Public Policy, hasResearchCenter, METRANS Transportation Consortium]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: METRANS Transportation Consortium
Context triple: [USC Price School of Public Policy, hasResearchCenter, METRANS Transportation Consortium]
  • A. Mineta Transportation Institute
    The Mineta Transportation Institute is a research and education center focused on surface transportation policy, planning, and management, based at San José State University in California.
  • B. Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
    The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley is a leading interdisciplinary research and education center focused on advancing transportation systems, policy, and technology.
  • C. Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center
    The Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center is a high-performance computing facility dedicated to advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis of transportation systems and technologies.
  • D. UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
    The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is a leading research center focused on transportation policy, planning, and equity, housed within UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.
  • E. Texas A&M Transportation Institute
    The Texas A&M Transportation Institute is a leading research agency specializing in transportation systems, safety, and infrastructure innovation.
  • 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: METRANS Transportation Consortium
Triple: [USC Price School of Public Policy, hasResearchCenter, METRANS Transportation Consortium]
Generated description
METRANS Transportation Consortium is a university-based research center focused on advancing transportation policy, planning, and management through interdisciplinary research and education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: METRANS Transportation Consortium
Target entity description: METRANS Transportation Consortium is a university-based research center focused on advancing transportation policy, planning, and management through interdisciplinary research and education.
  • A. Mineta Transportation Institute
    The Mineta Transportation Institute is a research and education center focused on surface transportation policy, planning, and management, based at San José State University in California.
  • B. Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
    The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley is a leading interdisciplinary research and education center focused on advancing transportation systems, policy, and technology.
  • C. Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center
    The Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center is a high-performance computing facility dedicated to advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis of transportation systems and technologies.
  • D. UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
    The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is a leading research center focused on transportation policy, planning, and equity, housed within UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.
  • E. Texas A&M Transportation Institute
    The Texas A&M Transportation Institute is a leading research agency specializing in transportation systems, safety, and infrastructure innovation.
  • 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_69c69f236ce08190a04d7679f03b29b2 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f4f13f548190a8cc59165735b30e completed March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8348e8d108190b77e59e9df336d81 completed March 28, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c836441e3081909671c8c118429eb5 completed March 28, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c836c34a488190a84e0136bc02f1cd completed March 28, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:42 p.m.