Triple

T2229970
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South African Airways E48741 entity
Predicate formerName P65 FINISHED
Object Union Airways
Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
E257060 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: Union Airways | Statement: [South African Airways, formerName, Union Airways]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union Airways
Context triple: [South African Airways, formerName, Union Airways]
  • A. Pan American World Airways
    Pan American World Airways was a pioneering and iconic American international airline that helped popularize long-haul jet travel in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Varney Air Lines
    Varney Air Lines was an early U.S. airmail and passenger carrier that became one of the key predecessors of modern United Airlines.
  • C. Eastern Air Lines
    Eastern Air Lines was a major U.S. airline that operated from the 1920s to the early 1990s, serving as one of the country’s largest and most influential carriers, particularly on East Coast and Latin American routes.
  • D. McGee Airways
    McGee Airways was an early Alaskan airline founded in the 1930s that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what is now Alaska Airlines.
  • E. Pacific Western Airlines
    Pacific Western Airlines was a major Canadian regional and domestic carrier that operated from the mid-20th century until its 1987 merger into Canadian Airlines.
  • 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: Union Airways
Triple: [South African Airways, formerName, Union Airways]
Generated description
Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union Airways
Target entity description: Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
  • A. Pan American World Airways
    Pan American World Airways was a pioneering and iconic American international airline that helped popularize long-haul jet travel in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Varney Air Lines
    Varney Air Lines was an early U.S. airmail and passenger carrier that became one of the key predecessors of modern United Airlines.
  • C. Eastern Air Lines
    Eastern Air Lines was a major U.S. airline that operated from the 1920s to the early 1990s, serving as one of the country’s largest and most influential carriers, particularly on East Coast and Latin American routes.
  • D. McGee Airways
    McGee Airways was an early Alaskan airline founded in the 1930s that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what is now Alaska Airlines.
  • E. Pacific Western Airlines
    Pacific Western Airlines was a major Canadian regional and domestic carrier that operated from the mid-20th century until its 1987 merger into Canadian Airlines.
  • 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_69a88aa51b388190949868ec9766e587 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc069e0ac8190bcda8cba9f5c7a5d completed March 7, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae95fb20b88190b7e959b5d718fe73 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae96c5a6308190b970ec78984a4e8a completed March 9, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae9728ebc081908e00e318bcd60e57 completed March 9, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.