Triple
T6677842
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Walter Q. Gresham |
E151899
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United States Postmaster General |
E33101
|
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 Postmaster General | Statement: [Walter Q. Gresham, positionHeld, United States Postmaster General]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Postmaster General Context triple: [Walter Q. Gresham, positionHeld, United States Postmaster General]
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A.
Postmaster General of the United States
chosen
The Postmaster General of the United States is the chief executive officer of the U.S. Postal Service, responsible for overseeing the nation’s mail system and postal operations.
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B.
Deputy Postmaster General of the United States
The Deputy Postmaster General of the United States is the second-highest executive officer of the U.S. Postal Service, responsible for assisting in overall leadership, operations, and strategic direction of the agency.
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C.
Confederate States Postmaster General
The Confederate States Postmaster General was the chief executive officer responsible for overseeing postal services and mail delivery within the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
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D.
Postmaster General of Great Britain
The Postmaster General of Great Britain was the senior government official historically responsible for overseeing the national postal system and related communications services in Great Britain.
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E.
Director General of the International Bureau of the UPU
The Director General of the International Bureau of the UPU is the chief executive officer of the Universal Postal Union’s secretariat, responsible for overseeing its global postal policy work and day-to-day administration.
- 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_69c687f830bc81909eb8b04dbb8450b1 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6b0f53af48190b0b25b61c3531158 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 4:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c6f7a78ab081909d904e4468293957 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:33 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:03 p.m.