Triple

T2254686
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brockville E49693 entity
Predicate locatedOnTransportRoute P2409 FINISHED
Object Canadian National Railway main line
The Canadian National Railway main line is a major transcontinental rail corridor in Canada that carries significant freight and passenger traffic across key regions of the country.
E248977 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: Canadian National Railway main line | Statement: [Brockville, locatedOnTransportRoute, Canadian National Railway main line]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canadian National Railway main line
Context triple: [Brockville, locatedOnTransportRoute, Canadian National Railway main line]
  • A. Canadian Pacific Railway mainline
    The Canadian Pacific Railway mainline is a major transcontinental rail corridor that forms a key freight and passenger transportation route across Canada, including through Northern Ontario.
  • B. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line
    The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line is a major transcontinental freight rail corridor in the United States that carries heavy rail traffic across key western routes, including the desert region near Needles, California.
  • C. Grand Trunk Railway
    The Grand Trunk Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian railway system that played a key role in linking central Canada with the Atlantic coast and the United States before being absorbed into the Canadian National Railway.
  • D. St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad
    The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad is a regional rail line in the northeastern United States and Canada that provides freight transportation across parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec.
  • E. North American rail network
    The North American rail network is an extensive, interconnected system of freight and passenger rail lines spanning the United States, Canada, and Mexico, operated by multiple major and regional railroads.
  • 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: Canadian National Railway main line
Triple: [Brockville, locatedOnTransportRoute, Canadian National Railway main line]
Generated description
The Canadian National Railway main line is a major transcontinental rail corridor in Canada that carries significant freight and passenger traffic across key regions of the country.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canadian National Railway main line
Target entity description: The Canadian National Railway main line is a major transcontinental rail corridor in Canada that carries significant freight and passenger traffic across key regions of the country.
  • A. Canadian Pacific Railway mainline
    The Canadian Pacific Railway mainline is a major transcontinental rail corridor that forms a key freight and passenger transportation route across Canada, including through Northern Ontario.
  • B. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line
    The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line is a major transcontinental freight rail corridor in the United States that carries heavy rail traffic across key western routes, including the desert region near Needles, California.
  • C. Grand Trunk Railway
    The Grand Trunk Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian railway system that played a key role in linking central Canada with the Atlantic coast and the United States before being absorbed into the Canadian National Railway.
  • D. St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad
    The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad is a regional rail line in the northeastern United States and Canada that provides freight transportation across parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec.
  • E. North American rail network
    The North American rail network is an extensive, interconnected system of freight and passenger rail lines spanning the United States, Canada, and Mexico, operated by multiple major and regional railroads.
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc121af78819085b2e601d2f9bcdf completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1fc8808190aebc534ea5adb534 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6c87e3108190bc3852b3ebdba45a completed March 9, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6d0f723c8190bf0f91dad961e377 completed March 9, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.