Triple

T348913
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Federal Highway Administration E6998 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Bureau of Public Roads
The Bureau of Public Roads was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for developing and overseeing the nation’s road and highway infrastructure before its functions were absorbed into the Federal Highway Administration.
E6998 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: Bureau of Public Roads | Statement: [Federal Highway Administration, predecessor, Bureau of Public Roads]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bureau of Public Roads
Context triple: [Federal Highway Administration, predecessor, Bureau of Public Roads]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
    The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan standards-setting and policy organization representing state departments of transportation across the United States.
  • E. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for improving road safety by setting and enforcing vehicle performance standards, investigating defects, and promoting traffic safety initiatives.
  • 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: Bureau of Public Roads
Triple: [Federal Highway Administration, predecessor, Bureau of Public Roads]
Generated description
The Bureau of Public Roads was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for developing and overseeing the nation’s road and highway infrastructure before its functions were absorbed into the Federal Highway Administration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bureau of Public Roads
Target entity description: The Bureau of Public Roads was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for developing and overseeing the nation’s road and highway infrastructure before its functions were absorbed into the Federal Highway Administration.
  • A. Federal Highway Administration chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
    The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan standards-setting and policy organization representing state departments of transportation across the United States.
  • E. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for improving road safety by setting and enforcing vehicle performance standards, investigating defects, and promoting traffic safety initiatives.
  • 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_69a2e7951ba08190960e90823b5078f3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eb1dc5f88190b54d084c6def7fc5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3dd33a50c8190846d19c24eb74039 completed March 1, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ddca8d3c8190b5baafe999a26b58 completed March 1, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3de7f9b28819099cfe7c55a8168f0 completed March 1, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.