Triple

T662951
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pony Express E11796 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Alexander Majors
Alexander Majors was a 19th-century American transportation magnate and freighting pioneer who helped revolutionize overland mail and cargo delivery in the American West.
 E97732 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: Alexander Majors | Statement: [Pony Express, founder, Alexander Majors]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander Majors
Context triple: [Pony Express, founder, Alexander Majors]
  • A. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • B. Jay Gould
    Jay Gould was a powerful and controversial 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier known for his ruthless business tactics and major influence during the Gilded Age.
  • C. Frederic L. Smith
    Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
  • D. Edward Leister
    Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • E. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: Alexander Majors
Triple: [Pony Express, founder, Alexander Majors]
Generated description
Alexander Majors was a 19th-century American transportation magnate and freighting pioneer who helped revolutionize overland mail and cargo delivery in the American West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander Majors
Target entity description: Alexander Majors was a 19th-century American transportation magnate and freighting pioneer who helped revolutionize overland mail and cargo delivery in the American West.
  • A. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • B. Jay Gould
    Jay Gould was a powerful and controversial 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier known for his ruthless business tactics and major influence during the Gilded Age.
  • C. Frederic L. Smith
    Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
  • D. Edward Leister
    Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • E. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69a4932862a0819098be659c814e4981 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49fd081e8819097f289961f5eff29 completed March 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d6cdc9c81909eb3240c00fa530d completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78e55468c8190abf96f0c0d5b3450 completed March 4, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78eb80f6081908257889efaff6d33 completed March 4, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.