Triple
T840639
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
E18167
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | New York City Transit Authority |
E132749
|
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: New York City Transit Authority | Statement: [Interborough Rapid Transit Company, successor, New York City Transit Authority]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New York City Transit Authority Context triple: [Interborough Rapid Transit Company, successor, New York City Transit Authority]
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A.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the public agency responsible for operating and overseeing much of the mass transit and commuter rail systems in the New York City metropolitan area.
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B.
Board of Transportation of the City of New York
chosen
The Board of Transportation of the City of New York was the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, and operating New York City's early publicly owned subway and transit lines before they were unified under later authorities.
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C.
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company was the private operator that built and ran New York City's first subway lines in the early 20th century before they were incorporated into the modern NYC Subway system.
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D.
Metropolitan Transit Authority
The Metropolitan Transit Authority was a former public agency that operated and managed mass transit services in the Boston metropolitan area before being succeeded by the MBTA.
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E.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was a major early 20th-century transit operator in New York City that controlled and integrated many of Brooklyn’s elevated and streetcar lines before becoming part of the city’s unified subway system.
- 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_69a4abe5d7848190b15e0cb343b6f4ba |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac660a86d881908ae96a5492c9b9a2 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:53 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.