Triple

T20179093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad E492677 entity
Predicate parentCompany P254 FINISHED
Object Northern Pacific Railway (partial owner before merger) — 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: Northern Pacific Railway (partial owner before merger) | Statement: [Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, parentCompany, Northern Pacific Railway (partial owner before merger)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Northern Pacific Railway (partial owner before merger)
Context triple: [Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, parentCompany, Northern Pacific Railway (partial owner before merger)]
  • A. Northern Pacific Railway chosen
    The Northern Pacific Railway was a major transcontinental railroad in the northern United States that played a key role in opening and developing the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway
    Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway were major transcontinental railroads in the northern United States that played a key role in the region’s economic development and were central to early 20th-century railroad consolidations.
  • C. Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
    The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was an early 20th-century Pacific Northwest railroad line, backed by railroad magnate James J. Hill, that connected key cities along the Columbia River and facilitated regional trade and transportation.
  • D. Northwestern Pacific Railroad
    The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was a historic rail line in Northern California that connected the San Francisco Bay Area to communities throughout Marin, Sonoma, and Humboldt counties, supporting regional passenger and freight transport.
  • E. Georgia Pacific Railway
    Georgia Pacific Railway was a 19th-century American railroad company in the southeastern United States that later became part of the Southern Railway system.
  • 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_69da6268a034819081cbd9ea5a1c9475 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e668ed07c8819091bd9ffda237a91c completed April 20, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:36 p.m.