Triple

T163546

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	United States Secretary of Transportation	`E2961`	entity
Predicate	oversees	`P46`	FINISHED
Object	Office of the Secretary of Transportation The Office of the Secretary of Transportation is the central executive office within the U.S. Department of Transportation that provides leadership, policy direction, and administrative support for the nation’s transportation system.	`E2961`	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: Office of the Secretary of Transportation | Statement: [United States Secretary of Transportation, oversees, Office of the Secretary of Transportation]

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

Target entity: Office of the Secretary of Transportation
Context triple: [United States Secretary of Transportation, oversees, Office of the Secretary of Transportation]

A. United States Department of Transportation
The United States Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy, safety regulation, and infrastructure across modes such as highways, aviation, rail, and transit.
B. United States Secretary of Transportation
The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for overseeing national transportation policy, infrastructure, and safety across air, land, and sea.
C. Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration is a U.S. government agency responsible for supporting the construction, maintenance, and safety of the nation’s highway and road systems.
D. Federal Transit Administration
The Federal Transit Administration is a U.S. government agency that provides financial and technical assistance to support and improve public transportation systems nationwide.
E. Surface Transportation Board
The Surface Transportation Board is an independent U.S. federal agency that oversees and adjudicates economic regulation of the nation’s railroads and certain other surface transportation carriers.
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: Office of the Secretary of Transportation
Triple: [United States Secretary of Transportation, oversees, Office of the Secretary of Transportation]

Generated description

The Office of the Secretary of Transportation is the central executive office within the U.S. Department of Transportation that provides leadership, policy direction, and administrative support for the nation’s transportation system.

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

Target entity: Office of the Secretary of Transportation
Target entity description: The Office of the Secretary of Transportation is the central executive office within the U.S. Department of Transportation that provides leadership, policy direction, and administrative support for the nation’s transportation system.

A. United States Department of Transportation
The United States Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy, safety regulation, and infrastructure across modes such as highways, aviation, rail, and transit.
B. United States Secretary of Transportation chosen
The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for overseeing national transportation policy, infrastructure, and safety across air, land, and sea.
C. Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration is a U.S. government agency responsible for supporting the construction, maintenance, and safety of the nation’s highway and road systems.
D. Federal Transit Administration
The Federal Transit Administration is a U.S. government agency that provides financial and technical assistance to support and improve public transportation systems nationwide.
E. Surface Transportation Board
The Surface Transportation Board is an independent U.S. federal agency that oversees and adjudicates economic regulation of the nation’s railroads and certain other surface transportation carriers.
F. None of above.

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_69a2524ce1e48190ab066bf72859f474`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69a2585a1a6481908899ad51211950e8`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69a2e3bf71ac819085b47fd03c853d9e`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69a2e4a237e88190bc4393c308c315b5`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69a2e51d4394819099303040d072b165`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 12:52 p.m.

Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:34 a.m.