Triple

T1422807
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive E30261 entity
Predicate introducedBy P513 FINISHED
Object Southern Pacific Railroad mechanical department E47630 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: Southern Pacific Railroad mechanical department | Statement: [Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive, introducedBy, Southern Pacific Railroad mechanical department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Pacific Railroad mechanical department
Context triple: [Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive, introducedBy, Southern Pacific Railroad mechanical department]
  • A. Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive
    The Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive is a distinctive class of steam engines with the cab placed at the front for crew safety, famously used by the Southern Pacific Railroad to haul trains through long, smoky mountain tunnels and snow sheds in the American West.
  • B. Union Pacific Yard
    Union Pacific Yard is a rail yard facility operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for organizing, storing, and dispatching freight trains and rolling stock.
  • C. Union Pacific inspection cars
    Union Pacific inspection cars are specially outfitted railroad cars used by the Union Pacific Railroad to carry officials and inspectors for track, infrastructure, and operational evaluations along the rail network.
  • D. Locomotive Works
    Locomotive Works is the section of the Derby railway works dedicated to the construction, maintenance, and repair of railway locomotives.
  • E. Southern Pacific Railroad chosen
    Southern Pacific Railroad was a major American railroad company that operated extensive rail networks across the western and southwestern United States from the 19th to the late 20th century.
  • 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_69a498fb823c8190a67ce4c4837e641a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c4ba798881909c2259987248b030 completed March 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0161e23c819099a1c72627f13dd0 completed March 8, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.