Triple

T11684473

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Battle of Jonesborough	`E277702`	entity
Predicate	railway	`P848`	FINISHED
Object	Macon and Western Railroad The Macon and Western Railroad was a 19th-century Georgia rail line that played a key logistical role for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, including in the Atlanta Campaign.	`E940772`	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: Macon and Western Railroad | Statement: [Battle of Jonesborough, railway, Macon and Western Railroad]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Macon and Western Railroad
Context triple: [Battle of Jonesborough, railway, Macon and Western Railroad]

A. Atlanta and West Point Railroad
The Atlanta and West Point Railroad was a historic rail line in the southeastern United States that connected Atlanta, Georgia to West Point, serving as an important regional freight and passenger route.
B. Clinchfield Railroad
Clinchfield Railroad was a U.S. Appalachian-region freight railroad renowned for its heavy coal traffic and engineering feats through the rugged mountains of Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
C. Sandersville Railroad
Sandersville Railroad is a shortline freight railroad based in Sandersville, Georgia, primarily serving local kaolin clay and industrial customers and connecting them to larger national rail networks.
D. Georgia Southwestern Railroad
Georgia Southwestern Railroad is a regional shortline railroad in the U.S. state of Georgia that has provided freight rail service to several small communities and industries in the region.
E. Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad
The Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad was a 19th-century regional rail line in the southeastern United States that connected parts of North Carolina and Tennessee, facilitating transportation and commerce in the post–Civil War era.
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: Macon and Western Railroad
Triple: [Battle of Jonesborough, railway, Macon and Western Railroad]

Generated description

The Macon and Western Railroad was a 19th-century Georgia rail line that played a key logistical role for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, including in the Atlanta Campaign.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Macon and Western Railroad
Target entity description: The Macon and Western Railroad was a 19th-century Georgia rail line that played a key logistical role for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, including in the Atlanta Campaign.

A. Atlanta and West Point Railroad
The Atlanta and West Point Railroad was a historic rail line in the southeastern United States that connected Atlanta, Georgia to West Point, serving as an important regional freight and passenger route.
B. Clinchfield Railroad
Clinchfield Railroad was a U.S. Appalachian-region freight railroad renowned for its heavy coal traffic and engineering feats through the rugged mountains of Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
C. Sandersville Railroad
Sandersville Railroad is a shortline freight railroad based in Sandersville, Georgia, primarily serving local kaolin clay and industrial customers and connecting them to larger national rail networks.
D. Georgia Southwestern Railroad
Georgia Southwestern Railroad is a regional shortline railroad in the U.S. state of Georgia that has provided freight rail service to several small communities and industries in the region.
E. Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad
The Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad was a 19th-century regional rail line in the southeastern United States that connected parts of North Carolina and Tennessee, facilitating transportation and commerce in the post–Civil War era.
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_69d6aafe02d881909900d54ad7d4af84`	completed	April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69d8a463f6448190a4c8e1651a2bd905`	completed	April 10, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69ef142269d08190a9e5cf8d6268168b`	completed	April 27, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69ef35527f908190b681afdae3aec319`	completed	April 27, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69ef51ec07ec8190b5cd97cf909388f0`	completed	April 27, 2026, 12:09 p.m.

Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.