Triple

T17110978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject International Mercantile Marine Company E415221 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object United States Lines
United States Lines was a major American transatlantic shipping company best known for operating iconic ocean liners such as the SS United States during the 20th century.
E1274513 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: United States Lines | Statement: [International Mercantile Marine Company, successor, United States Lines]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Lines
Context triple: [International Mercantile Marine Company, successor, United States Lines]
  • A. Red Star Line
    Red Star Line was a prominent Belgian-American shipping company that operated transatlantic passenger and freight services between Europe and North America from the late 19th to early 20th century.
  • B. White Star Line
    White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company best known for operating the RMS Titanic and other famous ocean liners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Hamburg America Line
    Hamburg America Line was a major German transatlantic shipping company that operated prominent passenger and cargo services between Europe and the Americas from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
  • D. New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co.
    New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co. was a shipping company that operated steamship services between New York and Puerto Rico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. American-Hawaiian Steamship Company
    The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company was a prominent U.S. shipping firm that operated cargo services between the American mainland and Hawaii, particularly active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: United States Lines
Triple: [International Mercantile Marine Company, successor, United States Lines]
Generated description
United States Lines was a major American transatlantic shipping company best known for operating iconic ocean liners such as the SS United States during the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Lines
Target entity description: United States Lines was a major American transatlantic shipping company best known for operating iconic ocean liners such as the SS United States during the 20th century.
  • A. Red Star Line
    Red Star Line was a prominent Belgian-American shipping company that operated transatlantic passenger and freight services between Europe and North America from the late 19th to early 20th century.
  • B. White Star Line
    White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company best known for operating the RMS Titanic and other famous ocean liners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Hamburg America Line
    Hamburg America Line was a major German transatlantic shipping company that operated prominent passenger and cargo services between Europe and the Americas from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
  • D. New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co.
    New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co. was a shipping company that operated steamship services between New York and Puerto Rico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. American-Hawaiian Steamship Company
    The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company was a prominent U.S. shipping firm that operated cargo services between the American mainland and Hawaii, particularly active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d886d090cc8190a39cb94992586905 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3dc2a7f2c81908eb19594b6accab7 completed April 18, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01d27638ec8190a125ee8e02086035 completed May 11, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01d36fcfd081908b85e5bafb3eda4e completed May 11, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01d3ca97b88190800530c80bd5dff0 completed May 11, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:35 a.m.