Triple

T126169

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	United States Postal Service	`E2555`	entity
Predicate	precededBy	`P97`	FINISHED
Object	Post Office Department The Post Office Department was the former cabinet-level agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for national mail delivery before its functions were transferred to the United States Postal Service in 1971.	`E13972`	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: Post Office Department | Statement: [United States Postal Service, precededBy, Post Office Department]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Post Office Department
Context triple: [United States Postal Service, precededBy, Post Office Department]

A. United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for providing nationwide postal delivery and related mail services.
B. U.S. General Services Administration
The U.S. General Services Administration is a federal agency that manages government buildings, procurement, and technology services to support the operations of other U.S. government agencies.
C. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a U.S. government agency responsible for designing and producing paper currency and other secure documents for the federal government.
D. Board of Treasury
The Board of Treasury was an early administrative body of the United States government under the Articles of Confederation responsible for managing national finances before the creation of the modern Treasury Department.
E. Government Printing Office
The Government Printing Office, now known as the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), is the federal agency responsible for producing, publishing, and distributing official publications and information products of the United States government.
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: Post Office Department
Triple: [United States Postal Service, precededBy, Post Office Department]

Generated description

The Post Office Department was the former cabinet-level agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for national mail delivery before its functions were transferred to the United States Postal Service in 1971.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Post Office Department
Target entity description: The Post Office Department was the former cabinet-level agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for national mail delivery before its functions were transferred to the United States Postal Service in 1971.

A. United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for providing nationwide postal delivery and related mail services.
B. U.S. General Services Administration
The U.S. General Services Administration is a federal agency that manages government buildings, procurement, and technology services to support the operations of other U.S. government agencies.
C. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a U.S. government agency responsible for designing and producing paper currency and other secure documents for the federal government.
D. Board of Treasury
The Board of Treasury was an early administrative body of the United States government under the Articles of Confederation responsible for managing national finances before the creation of the modern Treasury Department.
E. Government Printing Office
The Government Printing Office, now known as the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), is the federal agency responsible for producing, publishing, and distributing official publications and information products of the United States government.
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_69a251b54ea88190b18281669f59b4c0`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69a25760af348190bf402089c240887d`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69a29e4aeab48190bf2d140956278a42`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69a29ea7c9948190892047b2dec2505f`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69a2a05bd0208190b9f6a8023ddeb04d`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 7:59 a.m.

Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.