Triple

T540639
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Lighthouse Service E12619 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object United States Lighthouse Board
The United States Lighthouse Board was a 19th-century federal agency that modernized and oversaw the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids along U.S. coasts and waterways.
E68384 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: United States Lighthouse Board | Statement: [United States Lighthouse Service, predecessor, United States Lighthouse Board]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Lighthouse Board
Context triple: [United States Lighthouse Service, predecessor, United States Lighthouse Board]
  • A. United States Lighthouse Service
    The United States Lighthouse Service was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids before its functions were absorbed into the Coast Guard.
  • B. United States Life-Saving Service
    The United States Life-Saving Service was a federal agency that operated coastal rescue stations and crews dedicated to saving lives and ships in distress along U.S. shorelines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. United States Revenue Cutter Service
    The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
  • D. United States Coast Guard
    The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
  • E. French Commission of Lighthouses
    The French Commission of Lighthouses was a 19th-century governmental body responsible for overseeing the design, improvement, and standardization of lighthouse technology and coastal illumination in France.
  • 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: United States Lighthouse Board
Triple: [United States Lighthouse Service, predecessor, United States Lighthouse Board]
Generated description
The United States Lighthouse Board was a 19th-century federal agency that modernized and oversaw the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids along U.S. coasts and waterways.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Lighthouse Board
Target entity description: The United States Lighthouse Board was a 19th-century federal agency that modernized and oversaw the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids along U.S. coasts and waterways.
  • A. United States Lighthouse Service
    The United States Lighthouse Service was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids before its functions were absorbed into the Coast Guard.
  • B. United States Life-Saving Service
    The United States Life-Saving Service was a federal agency that operated coastal rescue stations and crews dedicated to saving lives and ships in distress along U.S. shorelines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. United States Revenue Cutter Service
    The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
  • D. United States Coast Guard
    The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
  • E. French Commission of Lighthouses
    The French Commission of Lighthouses was a 19th-century governmental body responsible for overseeing the design, improvement, and standardization of lighthouse technology and coastal illumination in France.
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4985feee481908184a39210feab95 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4d0403b248190a94b44b6073c500b completed March 1, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4d0aefa00819087320c7df48d8998 completed March 1, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4d130c6f081909b628aeafd2fc319 completed March 1, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.