Triple

T18469571
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject International–Great Northern Railroad E451259 entity
Predicate formedByMergerOf P77 FINISHED
Object International Railroad
International Railroad was a 19th-century Texas railway company that later became part of the International–Great Northern Railroad through consolidation.
E1327025 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: International Railroad | Statement: [International–Great Northern Railroad, formedByMergerOf, International Railroad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: International Railroad
Context triple: [International–Great Northern Railroad, formedByMergerOf, International Railroad]
  • A. Trans-Siberian Railway
    The Trans-Siberian Railway is a legendary long-distance rail line spanning Russia from Europe to the Pacific, renowned as one of the longest railway routes in the world.
  • B. Trans-Asian Railway
    The Trans-Asian Railway is an ambitious international rail network initiative aimed at linking the rail systems of Asia and Europe to facilitate seamless overland freight and passenger transport across the continent.
  • C. Overseas Railroad
    The Overseas Railroad was a historic extension of the Florida East Coast Railway that connected mainland Florida to Key West across a series of long bridges over the Florida Keys.
  • D. Nord-Süd-Bahn
    Nord-Süd-Bahn was the original name of Berlin’s present-day U6 U-Bahn line, a major north–south underground route through the city.
  • E. National Transcontinental Railway
    The National Transcontinental Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental rail line built in the early 20th century to link eastern and western Canada and later absorbed into the Canadian National Railway system.
  • 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: International Railroad
Triple: [International–Great Northern Railroad, formedByMergerOf, International Railroad]
Generated description
International Railroad was a 19th-century Texas railway company that later became part of the International–Great Northern Railroad through consolidation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: International Railroad
Target entity description: International Railroad was a 19th-century Texas railway company that later became part of the International–Great Northern Railroad through consolidation.
  • A. Trans-Siberian Railway
    The Trans-Siberian Railway is a legendary long-distance rail line spanning Russia from Europe to the Pacific, renowned as one of the longest railway routes in the world.
  • B. Trans-Asian Railway
    The Trans-Asian Railway is an ambitious international rail network initiative aimed at linking the rail systems of Asia and Europe to facilitate seamless overland freight and passenger transport across the continent.
  • C. Overseas Railroad
    The Overseas Railroad was a historic extension of the Florida East Coast Railway that connected mainland Florida to Key West across a series of long bridges over the Florida Keys.
  • D. Nord-Süd-Bahn
    Nord-Süd-Bahn was the original name of Berlin’s present-day U6 U-Bahn line, a major north–south underground route through the city.
  • E. National Transcontinental Railway
    The National Transcontinental Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental rail line built in the early 20th century to link eastern and western Canada and later absorbed into the Canadian National Railway system.
  • 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_69d8d38465a0819099b9b42d2a662ac1 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5305e349c8190925166bc3dddb320 completed April 19, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a043f26ef7881908b594437995d7cbc completed May 13, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a044369a6e08190b022d5a85dc8abde completed May 13, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a044bebd01081909b03b9dbb44f0b30 completed May 13, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:34 a.m.