Triple
T3917337
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | LMS |
E88872
|
entity |
| Predicate | wasOneOf |
P35
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Big Four British railway companies |
E88871
|
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: Big Four British railway companies | Statement: [LMS, wasOneOf, Big Four British railway companies]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Four British railway companies Context triple: [LMS, wasOneOf, Big Four British railway companies]
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A.
Big Four (British railway companies)
chosen
The Big Four were the four major private railway companies that dominated rail transport in Great Britain between the 1923 Grouping and nationalisation in 1948.
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B.
British Rail
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
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C.
Rail Delivery Group
Rail Delivery Group is the industry body that represents and coordinates Britain’s passenger and freight train operators and Network Rail, working to improve and manage the national rail system.
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D.
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated an extensive network across England, Scotland, and Wales until nationalisation in 1948.
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E.
Southern Railway (UK)
Southern Railway (UK) was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated routes in southern England, including busy commuter and coastal lines, until nationalisation in 1948.
- 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_69aed955229881909e85e73ffab1d343 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeed5797508190adaddb84575d9bb3 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b52864e0488190ab348a52cb9168b9 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 9:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:22 p.m.