Triple

T5355827
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Curtiss C-46 Commando E102688 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Flying Tigers Line
Flying Tigers Line was a pioneering American cargo airline, originally founded by World War II Flying Tigers veterans, that became a major international air freight carrier in the postwar era.
E514157 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: Flying Tigers Line | Statement: [Curtiss C-46 Commando, usedBy, Flying Tigers Line]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flying Tigers Line
Context triple: [Curtiss C-46 Commando, usedBy, Flying Tigers Line]
  • A. Civil Air Transport
    Civil Air Transport was a post–World War II Chinese airline closely linked to U.S. intelligence operations that evolved into a key air transport asset for the CIA in Asia.
  • B. Pan American–Grace Airways
    Pan American–Grace Airways, commonly known as Panagra, was a major mid-20th-century airline that operated routes along the west coast of South America as a joint venture between Pan American World Airways and W. R. Grace & Co.
  • C. Pan American World Airways
    Pan American World Airways was a pioneering and iconic American international airline that helped popularize long-haul jet travel in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Maddux Air Lines
    Maddux Air Lines was an early American airline of the late 1920s that operated scheduled passenger services, notably in California, and later merged into Transcontinental Air Transport.
  • E. Union Airways
    Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
  • 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: Flying Tigers Line
Triple: [Curtiss C-46 Commando, usedBy, Flying Tigers Line]
Generated description
Flying Tigers Line was a pioneering American cargo airline, originally founded by World War II Flying Tigers veterans, that became a major international air freight carrier in the postwar era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flying Tigers Line
Target entity description: Flying Tigers Line was a pioneering American cargo airline, originally founded by World War II Flying Tigers veterans, that became a major international air freight carrier in the postwar era.
  • A. Civil Air Transport
    Civil Air Transport was a post–World War II Chinese airline closely linked to U.S. intelligence operations that evolved into a key air transport asset for the CIA in Asia.
  • B. Pan American–Grace Airways
    Pan American–Grace Airways, commonly known as Panagra, was a major mid-20th-century airline that operated routes along the west coast of South America as a joint venture between Pan American World Airways and W. R. Grace & Co.
  • C. Pan American World Airways
    Pan American World Airways was a pioneering and iconic American international airline that helped popularize long-haul jet travel in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Maddux Air Lines
    Maddux Air Lines was an early American airline of the late 1920s that operated scheduled passenger services, notably in California, and later merged into Transcontinental Air Transport.
  • E. Union Airways
    Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
  • 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_69bd43d8f7248190b64c140734b5c9a8 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd862f0ea48190bec78690ab3bee51 completed March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf21e2b7b08190aca4c2855ff041de completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf228956d481909e9f3c11f4597cce completed March 21, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf230b571481909f76ada72d94c8d8 completed March 21, 2026, 11 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.