Triple
T837249
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Post Office |
E18095
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Royal Mail |
E98696
|
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: Royal Mail | Statement: [British Post Office, successor, Royal Mail]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal Mail Context triple: [British Post Office, successor, Royal Mail]
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A.
British Post Office
The British Post Office was the United Kingdom’s former state-run postal and telecommunications service, responsible for mail delivery, post offices, and early telegraph and telephone systems.
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B.
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for providing nationwide postal delivery and related mail services.
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C.
Parcel Force (as part of Royal Mail Group)
chosen
Parcel Force is a UK-based parcel delivery and courier service operated by the Royal Mail Group, providing domestic and international shipping solutions.
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D.
Postal Operations Council
The Postal Operations Council is the executive body of the Universal Postal Union responsible for overseeing and coordinating international postal operations and technical standards among member countries.
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E.
DHL
DHL is the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the United Nations’ main research and information resource center located at its headquarters in New York.
- 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_69a49389f44881909a608fb27d89f247 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4abcf69888190b342363978273ae2 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7929624e88190bb7e1c644b8cc52b |
completed | March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.