Triple
T21503545
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Reshaping of British Railways |
E530538
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Dr. Richard Beeching |
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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: Dr. Richard Beeching | Statement: [The Reshaping of British Railways, author, Dr. Richard Beeching]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Richard Beeching Context triple: [The Reshaping of British Railways, author, Dr. Richard Beeching]
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A.
Richard Beeching
chosen
Richard Beeching was a British physicist, industrialist, and chairman of British Railways best known for authoring the 1960s reports that led to widespread railway line closures in the UK.
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B.
Geoffrey Boulton
Geoffrey Boulton is a distinguished British geologist and glaciologist known for his influential research on ice sheets, climate change, and Earth surface processes.
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C.
Roy Butler
Roy Butler was an influential Austin civic leader and former mayor whose contributions to the city’s development and public spaces led to a major hike-and-bike trail being named in his honor.
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D.
Ian Burchnall
Ian Burchnall is an English football manager known for his coaching roles in Scandinavian and lower-league English clubs.
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E.
Sir Brian Unwin
Sir Brian Unwin is a British civil servant and banker best known for serving as president of the European Investment Bank in the 1990s.
- 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_69e0c45c81f08190a6b8bbb70a45aae7 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e9ea5deb388190a89a1f94285b7e55 |
completed | April 23, 2026, 9:46 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:24 p.m.