Triple

T4134216
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White Star Line E85110 entity
Predicate competitor P1375 FINISHED
Object Hamburg America Line
Hamburg America Line was a major German transatlantic shipping company that operated prominent passenger and cargo services between Europe and the Americas from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
E415224 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: Hamburg America Line | Statement: [White Star Line, competitor, Hamburg America Line]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hamburg America Line
Context triple: [White Star Line, competitor, Hamburg America Line]
  • A. White Star Line
    White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company best known for operating the RMS Titanic and other famous ocean liners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Franklin Line
    The Franklin Line is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail line serving communities southwest of Boston.
  • C. Black Star Line
    Black Star Line was a shipping company established in the early 20th century as part of a broader movement to promote Black economic independence and facilitate the return of the African diaspora to Africa.
  • D. American-Hawaiian Steamship Company
    The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company was a prominent U.S. shipping firm that operated cargo services between the American mainland and Hawaii, particularly active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Old Colony Lines
    Old Colony Lines are a group of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail routes connecting Boston with communities in the South Shore and southeastern Massachusetts.
  • 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: Hamburg America Line
Triple: [White Star Line, competitor, Hamburg America Line]
Generated description
Hamburg America Line was a major German transatlantic shipping company that operated prominent passenger and cargo services between Europe and the Americas from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hamburg America Line
Target entity description: Hamburg America Line was a major German transatlantic shipping company that operated prominent passenger and cargo services between Europe and the Americas from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
  • A. White Star Line
    White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company best known for operating the RMS Titanic and other famous ocean liners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Franklin Line
    The Franklin Line is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail line serving communities southwest of Boston.
  • C. Black Star Line
    Black Star Line was a shipping company established in the early 20th century as part of a broader movement to promote Black economic independence and facilitate the return of the African diaspora to Africa.
  • D. American-Hawaiian Steamship Company
    The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company was a prominent U.S. shipping firm that operated cargo services between the American mainland and Hawaii, particularly active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Old Colony Lines
    Old Colony Lines are a group of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail routes connecting Boston with communities in the South Shore and southeastern Massachusetts.
  • 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_69aed935ccd881909dc61f81bcdb7a78 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af023190608190bcc929c5996b7378 completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b576c4c0888190be156d093ea11207 completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5780ac150819085bba7d3e94d702f completed March 14, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b578b7eb0081909f25ed15fee1cf50 completed March 14, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:43 p.m.