Triple
T21831210
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Reshaping of British Railways |
E538997
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | 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: Richard Beeching | Statement: [The Reshaping of British Railways, author, Richard Beeching]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Beeching Context triple: [The Reshaping of British Railways, author, 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.
Nigel Gresley
Nigel Gresley was a renowned British steam locomotive engineer best known for designing record-breaking express engines such as the LNER Class A4 Mallard.
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C.
George Ivatt
George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
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D.
Sir John Fowler
Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
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E.
Karl Stephenson
Karl Stephenson is a music producer best known for his work on Beck’s breakthrough album "Mellow Gold."
- 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_69e0c475cda88190987d08f23caebdc1 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f091362d9081909f00ad7a2806d5cb |
completed | April 28, 2026, 10:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.