Triple

T14237638
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hokkaido Shinkansen E352926 entity
Predicate usesTunnel P18707 FINISHED
Object Seikan Tunnel
The Seikan Tunnel is a 53.85-kilometer undersea railway tunnel in Japan that connects the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido beneath the Tsugaru Strait.
E1091466 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: Seikan Tunnel | Statement: [Hokkaido Shinkansen, usesTunnel, Seikan Tunnel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seikan Tunnel
Context triple: [Hokkaido Shinkansen, usesTunnel, Seikan Tunnel]
  • A. Kanmon Tunnel
    The Kanmon Tunnel is an undersea railway and road tunnel in Japan that links the islands of Honshu and Kyushu beneath the Kanmon Straits.
  • B. Tateyama Tunnel
    Tateyama Tunnel is a high-altitude mountain tunnel in Japan that forms part of the scenic Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route through the Northern Japan Alps.
  • C. Usui Pass tunnel system
    The Usui Pass tunnel system is a series of long railway tunnels in Japan that carry high-speed Shinkansen trains through the mountainous Usui Pass region.
  • D. Ohashi
    Ohashi is a neighborhood within Tokyo’s Meguro ward, known as a residential area with convenient urban access.
  • E. Furka Base Tunnel
    The Furka Base Tunnel is a long railway tunnel in the Swiss Alps that provides an all-weather, low-level route beneath the Furka Pass, improving connectivity and reliability on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn line.
  • 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: Seikan Tunnel
Triple: [Hokkaido Shinkansen, usesTunnel, Seikan Tunnel]
Generated description
The Seikan Tunnel is a 53.85-kilometer undersea railway tunnel in Japan that connects the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido beneath the Tsugaru Strait.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seikan Tunnel
Target entity description: The Seikan Tunnel is a 53.85-kilometer undersea railway tunnel in Japan that connects the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido beneath the Tsugaru Strait.
  • A. Kanmon Tunnel
    The Kanmon Tunnel is an undersea railway and road tunnel in Japan that links the islands of Honshu and Kyushu beneath the Kanmon Straits.
  • B. Tateyama Tunnel
    Tateyama Tunnel is a high-altitude mountain tunnel in Japan that forms part of the scenic Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route through the Northern Japan Alps.
  • C. Usui Pass tunnel system
    The Usui Pass tunnel system is a series of long railway tunnels in Japan that carry high-speed Shinkansen trains through the mountainous Usui Pass region.
  • D. Ohashi
    Ohashi is a neighborhood within Tokyo’s Meguro ward, known as a residential area with convenient urban access.
  • E. Furka Base Tunnel
    The Furka Base Tunnel is a long railway tunnel in the Swiss Alps that provides an all-weather, low-level route beneath the Furka Pass, improving connectivity and reliability on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn line.
  • 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_69d8278adc7c8190a9218d69bce3c4e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de62422e28819089e7115052a28c96 completed April 14, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd3d0e6abc819097c0c9bdc08387f6 completed May 8, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd3dc46b408190b7c515156f81f1fc completed May 8, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd3eb045488190b44812eb638807ff completed May 8, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:07 a.m.