Triple

T187883
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Empire Builder E4022 entity
Predicate originalOperator P179 FINISHED
Object Great Northern Railway
Great Northern Railway was a major American transcontinental railroad that operated in the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest.
E23883 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: Great Northern Railway | Statement: [Empire Builder, originalOperator, Great Northern Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Northern Railway
Context triple: [Empire Builder, originalOperator, Great Northern Railway]
  • A. London and North Western Railway
    London and North Western Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century British railway company that operated extensive routes across England and Wales before becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.
  • B. Northern Central Railway
    Northern Central Railway was a historic American railroad that operated primarily in Pennsylvania and Maryland, serving as an important north–south link in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The London, Midland and Scottish Railway was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated an extensive network across England, Scotland, and Wales until nationalisation in 1948.
  • D. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
    The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major pre-grouping British railway company that operated an extensive network of lines across industrial northern England during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. East Midlands Railway
    East Midlands Railway is a British train operating company providing regional and intercity passenger rail services across the East Midlands and surrounding areas.
  • 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: Great Northern Railway
Triple: [Empire Builder, originalOperator, Great Northern Railway]
Generated description
Great Northern Railway was a major American transcontinental railroad that operated in the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Northern Railway
Target entity description: Great Northern Railway was a major American transcontinental railroad that operated in the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest.
  • A. London and North Western Railway
    London and North Western Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century British railway company that operated extensive routes across England and Wales before becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.
  • B. Northern Central Railway
    Northern Central Railway was a historic American railroad that operated primarily in Pennsylvania and Maryland, serving as an important north–south link in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The London, Midland and Scottish Railway was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated an extensive network across England, Scotland, and Wales until nationalisation in 1948.
  • D. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
    The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major pre-grouping British railway company that operated an extensive network of lines across industrial northern England during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. East Midlands Railway
    East Midlands Railway is a British train operating company providing regional and intercity passenger rail services across the East Midlands and surrounding areas.
  • 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_69a25497e2f08190a040f8c6e1842643 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2594940e48190a3d8efbce46241c3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a30287094c8190ad4669e856a29f6c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3047bf9588190a147cea4f7b74f46 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a304fdf7888190b0e14ca4eeffe397 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:40 a.m.