Triple
T4367839
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John A. Volpe |
E98820
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United States Secretary of Transportation |
E2961
|
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: United States Secretary of Transportation | Statement: [John A. Volpe, positionHeld, United States Secretary of Transportation]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Secretary of Transportation Context triple: [John A. Volpe, positionHeld, United States Secretary of Transportation]
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A.
United States Secretary of Transportation
chosen
The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for overseeing national transportation policy, infrastructure, and safety across air, land, and sea.
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B.
Secretary of Transportation
The Secretary of Transportation is the Philippine government’s chief official responsible for overseeing national transportation policy, infrastructure, and regulation across land, air, and sea sectors.
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C.
Deputy Secretary of Transportation
The Deputy Secretary of Transportation is the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Transportation, responsible for assisting the Secretary in overseeing national transportation policy and the department’s operations.
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D.
Office of the Secretary of Transportation
The Office of the Secretary of Transportation is the top-level leadership and policy-making body of the U.S. Department of Transportation, overseeing its various administrations and offices.
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E.
Office of the Deputy Secretary of Transportation
The Office of the Deputy Secretary of Transportation is the senior executive office within the U.S. Department of Transportation that supports and coordinates the department’s policies, programs, and daily operations under the leadership of the Deputy Secretary.
- 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b352034d3881909ed4b2f9eef5e823 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5dbcec90881908fe83c83119d99fe |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.