Triple

T14042679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Port Kent E337883 entity
Predicate hasFerryOperator P5933 FINISHED
Object Lake Champlain Transportation Company
Lake Champlain Transportation Company is a long-established ferry operator providing passenger and vehicle crossings on Lake Champlain between New York and Vermont.
E1075396 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: Lake Champlain Transportation Company | Statement: [Port Kent, hasFerryOperator, Lake Champlain Transportation Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lake Champlain Transportation Company
Context triple: [Port Kent, hasFerryOperator, Lake Champlain Transportation Company]
  • A. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for operating and maintaining the American portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a key commercial shipping route connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • B. Washington Island Ferry Line
    Washington Island Ferry Line is a ferry service that transports passengers, vehicles, and goods between Washington Island and the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.
  • C. St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation
    The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation is the Canadian, not-for-profit entity responsible for operating and maintaining the Canadian portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a key binational commercial shipping route between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • D. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was a 19th-century American transportation enterprise that developed one of the earliest integrated canal and railroad systems to move coal from Pennsylvania to markets in New York and beyond.
  • E. Maine State Ferry Service
    The Maine State Ferry Service is a publicly operated ferry system that provides essential transportation between mainland Maine and several of its coastal island communities.
  • 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: Lake Champlain Transportation Company
Triple: [Port Kent, hasFerryOperator, Lake Champlain Transportation Company]
Generated description
Lake Champlain Transportation Company is a long-established ferry operator providing passenger and vehicle crossings on Lake Champlain between New York and Vermont.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lake Champlain Transportation Company
Target entity description: Lake Champlain Transportation Company is a long-established ferry operator providing passenger and vehicle crossings on Lake Champlain between New York and Vermont.
  • A. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for operating and maintaining the American portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a key commercial shipping route connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • B. Washington Island Ferry Line
    Washington Island Ferry Line is a ferry service that transports passengers, vehicles, and goods between Washington Island and the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.
  • C. St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation
    The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation is the Canadian, not-for-profit entity responsible for operating and maintaining the Canadian portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a key binational commercial shipping route between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • D. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was a 19th-century American transportation enterprise that developed one of the earliest integrated canal and railroad systems to move coal from Pennsylvania to markets in New York and beyond.
  • E. Maine State Ferry Service
    The Maine State Ferry Service is a publicly operated ferry system that provides essential transportation between mainland Maine and several of its coastal island communities.
  • 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_69d81c664e48819088cbd8f433aeffe5 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de312b94308190bd0961f5bc719c7b completed April 14, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbc33dbc8c819080b6cb3d589da7a1 completed May 6, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbc6d1048081908fb2e798cbc9902f completed May 6, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbc76610008190bd3c7f357666c8db completed May 6, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:20 p.m.