Triple

T29206628

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	William Barclay Parsons	`E740428`	entity
Predicate	notableWork	`P4`	FINISHED
Object	Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities "Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities" is a technical and historical study by civil engineer William Barclay Parsons examining the development, design, and operation of urban rapid transit systems in New York and major cities worldwide.	`E1856689`	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: Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities | Statement: [William Barclay Parsons, notableWork, Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities]

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: Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities
Triple: [William Barclay Parsons, notableWork, Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities]

Generated description

"Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities" is a technical and historical study by civil engineer William Barclay Parsons examining the development, design, and operation of urban rapid transit systems in New York and major cities worldwide.

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_69f07cb974108190b7e86ca489a6ebb6`	completed	April 28, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f664022f0881908c77482eeead99d2`	completed	May 2, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a2569c335e8819092760b51b1224dc5`	completed	June 7, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a256fb17a888190bde616b95d66ab47`	completed	June 7, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a257363fb188190a0d5a94306c948dd`	completed	June 7, 2026, 1:34 p.m.

Created at: April 28, 2026, 12:09 p.m.