Triple
T2988216
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Boston and Maine Railroad |
E80679
|
entity |
| Predicate | majorCityServed |
P3936
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Boston, Massachusetts |
E884
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Boston, Massachusetts | Statement: [Boston and Maine Railroad, majorCityServed, Boston, Massachusetts]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boston, Massachusetts Context triple: [Boston and Maine Railroad, majorCityServed, Boston, Massachusetts]
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A.
Boston, Massachusetts
chosen
Boston, Massachusetts is a historic New England city and the capital of Massachusetts, known for its pivotal role in the American Revolution, prestigious universities, and cultural and economic influence.
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B.
Boston
Boston is a historic market town and port in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in early English Puritan emigration to America.
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C.
Boston
Boston is a historic market town and port in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in the origins of the Pilgrim Fathers.
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D.
Boston
Boston is a historic market and port town in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in early Puritan emigration to America.
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E.
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford, Massachusetts is a historic city just northwest of Boston, known for being the home of Tufts University and for its role in early American colonial and industrial history.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: majorCityServed Context triple: [Boston and Maine Railroad, majorCityServed, Boston, Massachusetts]
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A.
cityServedRegion
Indicates that a city provides services to, or functions as an administrative or economic center for, a specified region.
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B.
servedCity
chosen
Indicates that a service, route, or facility operates in, reaches, or is available to a particular city.
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C.
boroughServed
Indicates that a given entity (such as a facility, service, or route) serves or provides coverage to a specific borough.
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D.
majorReceivingCity
Indicates that one city serves as a primary destination or hub for receiving people, goods, or resources from another location.
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E.
servesAsFocusCityFor
Indicates that a city functions as a primary or designated focus city for an airline, organization, or transportation network, typically hosting significant but not hub-level operations or activities.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69ad8b16c3488190b47b6aa7a59a335b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad99c9cdd081908fa8094a3ac1f8d3 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b20eff8b38819080366caacc544d4c |
completed | March 12, 2026, 12:55 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69ad961403108190bbecb8d3608fd4e0 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:30 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.