Triple

T298306
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Central Pacific Railroad historic route E6141 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
E38256 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: First Transcontinental Railroad | Statement: [Central Pacific Railroad historic route, partOf, First Transcontinental Railroad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Transcontinental Railroad
Context triple: [Central Pacific Railroad historic route, partOf, First Transcontinental Railroad]
  • A. Central Pacific Railroad historic route
    The Central Pacific Railroad historic route is the original transcontinental rail line built in the 1860s that crossed the Sierra Nevada, including through Donner Pass, to connect California with the rest of the United States.
  • B. The Standard Railroad of the World
    The Standard Railroad of the World was the proud slogan and nickname of the Pennsylvania Railroad, once one of the largest and most influential railroads in the United States.
  • C. Pony Express
    The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
  • D. Mormon Trail
    The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
  • E. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • 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: First Transcontinental Railroad
Triple: [Central Pacific Railroad historic route, partOf, First Transcontinental Railroad]
Generated description
The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Transcontinental Railroad
Target entity description: The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • A. Central Pacific Railroad historic route
    The Central Pacific Railroad historic route is the original transcontinental rail line built in the 1860s that crossed the Sierra Nevada, including through Donner Pass, to connect California with the rest of the United States.
  • B. The Standard Railroad of the World
    The Standard Railroad of the World was the proud slogan and nickname of the Pennsylvania Railroad, once one of the largest and most influential railroads in the United States.
  • C. Pony Express
    The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
  • D. Mormon Trail
    The Mormon Trail was a 19th-century overland route used by Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
  • E. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • 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_69a2e79114b081909490b3bf5a5dbb51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2e9e3acc08190a35746f2de7e30f0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3a88a27648190a691c62f0361fd90 completed March 1, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3a90299888190b7f88d6411531823 completed March 1, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3a96e4ff08190982e2e92a7c529a5 completed March 1, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.