Triple

T1738613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North British Railway E37977 entity
Predicate abbreviation P43 FINISHED
Object NBR
NBR is the abbreviation for the North British Railway, a former major Scottish railway company that operated in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
 E193439 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: NBR | Statement: [North British Railway, abbreviation, NBR]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NBR
Context triple: [North British Railway, abbreviation, NBR]
  • A. NBI
    NBI is the ticker symbol for the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index, which tracks the performance of leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies listed on the Nasdaq stock market.
  • B. NR
    NR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Republic of Nauru.
  • C. NR
    NR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Nordic Council, a regional inter-parliamentary body for cooperation among the Nordic countries.
  • D. NR
    NR is the standard abbreviation for National Rail, the collective network of passenger railway services in Great Britain.
  • E. BN
    BN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city of Bonn.
  • 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: NBR
Triple: [North British Railway, abbreviation, NBR]
Generated description
NBR is the abbreviation for the North British Railway, a former major Scottish railway company that operated in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NBR
Target entity description: NBR is the abbreviation for the North British Railway, a former major Scottish railway company that operated in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. NBI
    NBI is the ticker symbol for the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index, which tracks the performance of leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies listed on the Nasdaq stock market.
  • B. NR
    NR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Republic of Nauru.
  • C. NR
    NR is the standard abbreviation for National Rail, the collective network of passenger railway services in Great Britain.
  • D. NR
    NR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Nordic Council, a regional inter-parliamentary body for cooperation among the Nordic countries.
  • E. BN
    BN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city of Bonn.
  • 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_69a8861cc6ac8190ac0b2e31ccf62851 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63c35aec8190b5c19ace5524173f completed March 6, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8b03303c8190a301dca327bf9f47 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad957e9a6c81909d52bf2def797526 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97b6c03881909f278594e800c0f5 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.