Triple

T307028
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Puget Sound region E6324 entity
Predicate hasTransportationAgency P7691 FINISHED
Object Sound Transit
Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
E40468 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: Sound Transit | Statement: [Puget Sound region, hasTransportationAgency, Sound Transit]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sound Transit
Context triple: [Puget Sound region, hasTransportationAgency, Sound Transit]
  • A. Sound Transit Link light rail
    Sound Transit Link light rail is a regional rapid transit system serving Seattle and surrounding communities with frequent, high-capacity train service.
  • B. TriMet
    TriMet is the regional public transportation agency serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
  • C. Portland Bureau of Transportation
    The Portland Bureau of Transportation is the city agency responsible for planning, building, managing, and maintaining Portland, Oregon’s transportation infrastructure and services.
  • D. MAX Light Rail
    MAX Light Rail is the metropolitan light rail transit system serving the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area.
  • E. MetroLink light rail
    MetroLink light rail is the bi-state light rail transit system serving the Greater St. Louis area, providing regional passenger rail service across parts of Missouri and Illinois.
  • 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: Sound Transit
Triple: [Puget Sound region, hasTransportationAgency, Sound Transit]
Generated description
Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sound Transit
Target entity description: Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
  • A. Sound Transit Link light rail
    Sound Transit Link light rail is a regional rapid transit system serving Seattle and surrounding communities with frequent, high-capacity train service.
  • B. TriMet
    TriMet is the regional public transportation agency serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
  • C. Portland Bureau of Transportation
    The Portland Bureau of Transportation is the city agency responsible for planning, building, managing, and maintaining Portland, Oregon’s transportation infrastructure and services.
  • D. MAX Light Rail
    MAX Light Rail is the metropolitan light rail transit system serving the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area.
  • E. MetroLink light rail
    MetroLink light rail is the bi-state light rail transit system serving the Greater St. Louis area, providing regional passenger rail service across parts of Missouri and Illinois.
  • 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_69a2e79230508190b912ecb555aae17e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea313be88190b4441f3ea41a99e2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3c415f83c8190b95755f23faae026 completed March 1, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3c4a50d0c819086ab22f9a46b953a completed March 1, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3c530f6a48190aeb056a38e417313 completed March 1, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.