Triple
T2395078
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Southern Pacific Railroad |
E47630
|
entity |
| Predicate | formedBy |
P972
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Charles Crocker |
E121839
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Charles Crocker | Statement: [Southern Pacific Railroad, formedBy, Charles Crocker]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Crocker Context triple: [Southern Pacific Railroad, formedBy, Charles Crocker]
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A.
Charles Crocker
chosen
Charles Crocker was a 19th-century American railroad executive and industrialist best known as one of the "Big Four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad and helped create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
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B.
Collis P. Huntington
Collis P. Huntington was a prominent 19th-century American railroad magnate and industrialist who played a key role in the development of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and major shipbuilding enterprises.
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C.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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D.
Charles T. Yerkes
Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
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E.
James J. Hill
James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88a1c450c81909f61abb8b6863885 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc879b1b88190be8d0337d9a17bd0 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:40 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aef09854fc8190bab0415e3815a920 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:08 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.