Triple
T11214206
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Frank Stevens |
E265389
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Great Northern Railway Company |
E23883
|
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: Great Northern Railway Company | Statement: [John Frank Stevens, employer, Great Northern Railway Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Northern Railway Company Context triple: [John Frank Stevens, employer, Great Northern Railway Company]
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A.
Great Northern Railway
chosen
Great Northern Railway was a major American transcontinental railroad that operated in the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Great Northern Railway
The Great Northern Railway was a major British railway company that operated extensive routes across northern England and played a key role in the development of the region’s transport infrastructure during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Great Northern and City Railway
The Great Northern and City Railway was a deep-level underground railway in London designed to link the Great Northern Railway’s mainline services directly into the City, later becoming part of the London Underground network.
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D.
Northern and Eastern Railway
The Northern and Eastern Railway was an early 19th-century British railway company that developed key lines in the east of England before being absorbed into larger railway networks.
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E.
North Western Railway
North Western Railway is a fictional railway company featured in The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry, set on the Island of Sodor and known for its anthropomorphic locomotives.
- 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_69d6aac59460819089b9848b27f57848 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e8d7f47c8190b78c640ff1a01943 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e4ad135154819091026334d25cd287 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10:23 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.