Triple

T22862431
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northern Pacific Railway E566961 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Northern Pacific Railroad 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: Northern Pacific Railroad | Statement: [Northern Pacific Railway, predecessor, Northern Pacific Railroad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Pacific Railroad
Context triple: [Northern Pacific Railway, predecessor, Northern Pacific Railroad]
  • A. Northern Pacific Railway chosen
    The Northern Pacific Railway was a major transcontinental railroad in the northern United States that played a key role in opening and developing the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Northern Pacific
    The Northern Pacific is the northern portion of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing vast open waters and numerous island groups and archipelagos across the Northern Hemisphere.
  • C. Northwestern Pacific Railroad
    The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was a historic rail line in Northern California that connected the San Francisco Bay Area to communities throughout Marin, Sonoma, and Humboldt counties, supporting regional passenger and freight transport.
  • D. Western Pacific Railroad
    Western Pacific Railroad was a major American railroad company that operated primarily in the western United States, known for its scenic transcontinental routes and competitive service against larger carriers like the Southern Pacific.
  • E. Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway
    Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway were major transcontinental railroads in the northern United States that played a key role in the region’s economic development and were central to early 20th-century railroad consolidations.
  • 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_69e24589083081908d5694c4fdc80086 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17efdc3b08190be03d856aa86b277 completed April 29, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:37 p.m.