Triple

T17817323
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Lynchburg E444879 entity
Predicate railJunction P14468 FINISHED
Object Virginia and Tennessee Railroad — NE NERFINISHED

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: Virginia and Tennessee Railroad | Statement: [Battle of Lynchburg, railJunction, Virginia and Tennessee Railroad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
Context triple: [Battle of Lynchburg, railJunction, Virginia and Tennessee Railroad]
  • A. Virginia and Tennessee Railroad chosen
    The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was a 19th-century rail line that played a key role in linking eastern Virginia with the interior South and supporting Confederate transportation during the American Civil War.
  • B. Virginia Central Railroad
    The Virginia Central Railroad was a 19th-century Virginia railway that played a key role in regional transportation and Civil War logistics before becoming a principal predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
  • C. East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
    The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad was a 19th-century regional rail line that operated in the Appalachian region before becoming part of the larger East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway system.
  • D. Virginian Railway
    The Virginian Railway was an early 20th-century American coal-hauling railroad that operated primarily in West Virginia and Virginia, renowned for its efficient, heavy-duty freight operations and later incorporation into the Norfolk and Western Railway.
  • E. East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
    The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway was a 19th-century American railroad system that connected key parts of the southeastern United States and later became a major component of the Southern Railway network.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f0de78819099395b14db75a8a6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e48880457c81908214741d6cd7a1ee completed April 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:14 a.m.