Triple

T13822613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays E332172 entity
Predicate hasEssay P27484 FINISHED
Object How to Use the Taxi
"How to Use the Taxi" is a humorous essay by Umberto Eco that satirically dissects the social rituals and absurdities of taking a taxi in modern urban life.
E1063303 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: How to Use the Taxi | Statement: [How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, hasEssay, How to Use the Taxi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Use the Taxi
Context triple: [How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, hasEssay, How to Use the Taxi]
  • A. GrabTaxi
    GrabTaxi is a Southeast Asian ride-hailing and transportation platform that began as MyTeksi in Malaysia before expanding regionally under the Grab brand.
  • B. Taksi
    Taksi was a Jurchen chieftain of the late Ming period and the father of Nurhaci, whose lineage helped lay the foundations for the later Qing dynasty.
  • C. Uber Pool
    Uber Pool is a ride-sharing service from Uber that matches multiple passengers heading in similar directions to share a car and split the fare.
  • D. Metro Call-A-Ride
    Metro Call-A-Ride is a paratransit service providing door-to-door transportation for riders with disabilities and mobility challenges in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
  • E. Taxi
    Taxi is a critically acclaimed American sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1983, following the lives of New York City cab drivers and their dispatcher, and is celebrated for its ensemble cast and blend of comedy and pathos.
  • 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: How to Use the Taxi
Triple: [How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, hasEssay, How to Use the Taxi]
Generated description
"How to Use the Taxi" is a humorous essay by Umberto Eco that satirically dissects the social rituals and absurdities of taking a taxi in modern urban life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Use the Taxi
Target entity description: "How to Use the Taxi" is a humorous essay by Umberto Eco that satirically dissects the social rituals and absurdities of taking a taxi in modern urban life.
  • A. GrabTaxi
    GrabTaxi is a Southeast Asian ride-hailing and transportation platform that began as MyTeksi in Malaysia before expanding regionally under the Grab brand.
  • B. Taksi
    Taksi was a Jurchen chieftain of the late Ming period and the father of Nurhaci, whose lineage helped lay the foundations for the later Qing dynasty.
  • C. Uber Pool
    Uber Pool is a ride-sharing service from Uber that matches multiple passengers heading in similar directions to share a car and split the fare.
  • D. Metro Call-A-Ride
    Metro Call-A-Ride is a paratransit service providing door-to-door transportation for riders with disabilities and mobility challenges in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
  • E. Taxi
    Taxi is a critically acclaimed American sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1983, following the lives of New York City cab drivers and their dispatcher, and is celebrated for its ensemble cast and blend of comedy and pathos.
  • 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_69d81c5ae7c88190b0dd41bdafeb5999 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0284428081908043c55caeefb833 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b8e60e1c81908d51d723e85e0541 completed May 3, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b9d81f488190875e9b3f885556ab completed May 3, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7ba936c4481908757699ff22d3904 completed May 3, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:13 p.m.