Triple

T21503577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Reshaping of British Railways E530538 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes — 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: The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes | Statement: [The Reshaping of British Railways, followedBy, The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes
Context triple: [The Reshaping of British Railways, followedBy, The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes]
  • A. The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes chosen
    The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes was a British transport policy report that outlined a future core network of main railway lines, heavily influencing later restructuring decisions such as the Beeching cuts.
  • B. Railroads: Their Origin and Problems
    Railroads: Their Origin and Problems is a historical and analytical study by Charles Francis Adams Jr. examining the development, economic impact, and regulatory challenges of the American railroad system.
  • C. Railroads and American Economic Growth
    "Railroads and American Economic Growth" is a landmark economic history study by Robert Fogel that uses quantitative methods to reassess the impact of railroads on 19th-century U.S. economic development.
  • D. Railroad Transportation: Its History and Its Laws
    Railroad Transportation: Its History and Its Laws is a seminal late-19th-century economic and legal analysis of the railroad industry by American economist Arthur Twining Hadley.
  • E. Report on Transportation by Railroads
    "Report on Transportation by Railroads" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing railroad practices, rates, and their economic impact on interstate commerce.
  • 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.