Triple
T21133815
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Westhoughton railway station |
E520758
|
entity |
| Predicate | originalOperator |
P179
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Liverpool and Bury Railway |
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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: Liverpool and Bury Railway | Statement: [Westhoughton railway station, originalOperator, Liverpool and Bury Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Liverpool and Bury Railway Context triple: [Westhoughton railway station, originalOperator, Liverpool and Bury Railway]
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A.
Liverpool and Bury Railway
chosen
The Liverpool and Bury Railway was a 19th-century railway company in northwest England that developed a key route linking the port city of Liverpool with the industrial town of Bury.
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B.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was one of the world’s first inter-city passenger railways to rely exclusively on steam power, pioneering modern railway transport in early 19th-century England.
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C.
Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
The Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway was a 19th-century British railway company that developed and operated a suburban line connecting Liverpool with the coastal towns of Crosby and Southport.
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D.
Manchester and Bolton Railway
The Manchester and Bolton Railway was a 19th-century British railway company that built and operated the line connecting Manchester with the industrial town of Bolton in northwest England.
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E.
Manchester and Birmingham Railway
The Manchester and Birmingham Railway was an early 19th-century British railway company that operated a key main line in northwest England before becoming part of the London and North Western Railway.
- 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_69e0b50b53048190ae34e8abbe3c5ada |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e7235847948190984c7009ca7f6189 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:56 p.m.