Triple
T12466247
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Great Western Railway (Canada) |
E297931
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Grand Trunk Railway |
E167457
|
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: Grand Trunk Railway | Statement: [Great Western Railway (Canada), successor, Grand Trunk Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grand Trunk Railway Context triple: [Great Western Railway (Canada), successor, Grand Trunk Railway]
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A.
Grand Trunk Railway
chosen
The Grand Trunk Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian railway system that played a key role in linking central Canada with the Atlantic coast and the United States before being absorbed into the Canadian National Railway.
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B.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was an early 20th-century Canadian transcontinental railway that played a key role in opening Western Canada to settlement and trade before its assets were absorbed into the national rail system.
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C.
Intercolonial Railway of Canada
The Intercolonial Railway of Canada was a government-owned railway that linked the Maritime provinces with central Canada and played a key role in the country’s early national transportation network.
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D.
Hudson Bay Railway
The Hudson Bay Railway is a regional rail line in northern Manitoba, Canada, primarily serving remote communities and resource industries and providing a key transportation link to the Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay.
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E.
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway is a historic Canadian transcontinental railway company that played a central role in the country’s development and later expanded into a major transportation and hospitality conglomerate.
- 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_69d6ada270808190b1a2b2e7b02bb426 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d94db7828481909d8f02b2fde83567 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f63f1f44f481909c7efdffd2aeac41 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.