Triple

T21831168
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Rail Class 90 E538996 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Railfreight Distribution
Railfreight Distribution was a sector of British Rail responsible for operating and managing long-distance rail freight services, particularly intermodal and international traffic via the Channel Tunnel.
 E144342 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: Railfreight Distribution | Statement: [British Rail Class 90, usedBy, Railfreight Distribution]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Railfreight Distribution
Context triple: [British Rail Class 90, usedBy, Railfreight Distribution]
  • A. Railfreight
    Railfreight was the freight sector of British Rail, responsible for operating and managing rail-based goods transport services in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Mainline Freight
    Mainline Freight was a British rail freight company that operated in the mid-1990s before being absorbed into what became English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS).
  • C. Transrail Freight
    Transrail Freight was a British rail freight company that emerged from the privatization and restructuring of the former state-owned freight operations.
  • D. GB Railfreight
    GB Railfreight is a major UK rail freight operating company that provides cargo transport services across the national rail network.
  • E. Freight Operating Companies
    Freight Operating Companies are rail businesses that provide commercial freight transport services, typically running cargo trains and logistics operations on national rail networks.
  • 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: Railfreight Distribution
Triple: [British Rail Class 90, usedBy, Railfreight Distribution]
Generated description
Railfreight Distribution was a sector of British Rail responsible for operating and managing long-distance rail freight services, particularly intermodal and international traffic via the Channel Tunnel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Railfreight Distribution
Target entity description: Railfreight Distribution was a sector of British Rail responsible for operating and managing long-distance rail freight services, particularly intermodal and international traffic via the Channel Tunnel.
  • A. Railfreight chosen
    Railfreight was the freight sector of British Rail, responsible for operating and managing rail-based goods transport services in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Mainline Freight
    Mainline Freight was a British rail freight company that operated in the mid-1990s before being absorbed into what became English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS).
  • C. Transrail Freight
    Transrail Freight was a British rail freight company that emerged from the privatization and restructuring of the former state-owned freight operations.
  • D. GB Railfreight
    GB Railfreight is a major UK rail freight operating company that provides cargo transport services across the national rail network.
  • E. Freight Operating Companies
    Freight Operating Companies are rail businesses that provide commercial freight transport services, typically running cargo trains and logistics operations on national rail networks.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0c475cda88190987d08f23caebdc1 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f091362d9081909f00ad7a2806d5cb completed April 28, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a45e8f6b48190852c512a878585be completed May 17, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a4682eca08190916e211b0e9e3861 completed May 17, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a474e900c81909c5167c63509ae0a completed May 17, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.