Triple

T3843672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William B. Waddell E93514 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Pony Express E11796 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Pony Express | Statement: [William B. Waddell, coFounded, Pony Express]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pony Express
Context triple: [William B. Waddell, coFounded, Pony Express]
  • A. Pony Express chosen
    The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
  • B. Butterfield Overland Mail
    Butterfield Overland Mail was a 19th-century stagecoach service that carried mail and passengers across the United States on one of the earliest transcontinental routes before the advent of the transcontinental railroad.
  • C. Pony Express National Historic Trail
    The Pony Express National Historic Trail is a protected route that commemorates the legendary 19th-century mail service between Missouri and California, preserving and interpreting its historic path and landmarks.
  • D. Central Pacific
    Central Pacific refers to the midsection of the Pacific Ocean region, historically significant as a major area of military operations and command during the Pacific theater of World War II.
  • E. Central Pacific
    Central Pacific is a subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages that includes Fijian and related languages spoken across parts of Fiji and nearby Pacific islands.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69aed96ce578819084ab16e3439976c9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeebb4fd308190a636ba9dbbe57ed6 completed March 9, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5122ba6a4819099986e50f42f2a92 completed March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:18 p.m.