Triple
T1078071
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Great Northern Railway |
E23883
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James J. Hill |
E25066
|
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: James J. Hill | Statement: [Great Northern Railway, founder, James J. Hill]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James J. Hill Context triple: [Great Northern Railway, founder, James J. Hill]
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A.
James J. Hill
chosen
James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Charles Crocker
Charles Crocker was a 19th-century American railroad executive and industrialist best known as one of the "Big Four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad and helped create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
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C.
Charles T. Yerkes
Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
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D.
Thomas Durant
Thomas Durant is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as a ruthless and ambitious railroad tycoon driving the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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E.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser
Frederick Weyerhaeuser was a 19th-century German-American timber magnate who became one of the most influential figures in the U.S. lumber industry.
- 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_69a493f1ddf48190a99d54b00e99f8ce |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b94288d88190aae4fb86236c0702 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:10 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac7f2b76308190a843ccad1ef95f07 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:40 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.