Triple
T217871
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cardiff Central |
E4146
|
entity |
| Predicate | operator |
P179
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway is a major British train operating company providing intercity and regional rail services across western and southern England and South Wales.
|
E28420
|
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 Western Railway | Statement: [Cardiff Central, operator, Great Western Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Western Railway Context triple: [Cardiff Central, operator, Great Western Railway]
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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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
British Rail
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
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E.
Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company that operated extensive routes across Scotland and into England during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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 Western Railway Triple: [Cardiff Central, operator, Great Western Railway]
Generated description
Great Western Railway is a major British train operating company providing intercity and regional rail services across western and southern England and South Wales.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Western Railway Target entity description: Great Western Railway is a major British train operating company providing intercity and regional rail services across western and southern England and South Wales.
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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.
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.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
British Rail
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
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E.
Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company that operated extensive routes across Scotland and into England during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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_69a2573508588190b522c2476d91acfe |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25c5062e48190833be10e4770e1e9 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:09 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a34d953f308190b15fc5768b5b5e6f |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 8:18 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a35076ef6881908918c19412e12efe |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a350d687148190b673593b8aa0072e |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 8:32 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.