Triple

T5083230
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad E114572 entity
Predicate parentCompanyAfter1968 P5441 FINISHED
Object Burlington Northern Inc. E3839 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: Burlington Northern Inc. | Statement: [Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, parentCompanyAfter1968, Burlington Northern Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burlington Northern Inc.
Context triple: [Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, parentCompanyAfter1968, Burlington Northern Inc.]
  • A. BNSF Railway chosen
    BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, operating an extensive system that spans the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
  • B. Consolidated Rail Corporation
    Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail, was a major U.S. freight railroad created in the 1970s to take over and revitalize the operations of several bankrupt Northeastern railroads.
  • C. Union Pacific Railroad
    Union Pacific Railroad is one of the largest freight rail networks in the United States, operating an extensive system that spans the western two-thirds of the country.
  • D. Norfolk and Western Railway
    Norfolk and Western Railway was a major American railroad known for its coal-hauling operations and distinctive steam locomotive fleet, which later became part of Norfolk Southern Railway through merger.
  • E. Northern Pacific Railway
    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.
  • 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: parentCompanyAfter1968
Context triple: [Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, parentCompanyAfter1968, Burlington Northern Inc.]
  • A. laterParentCompany chosen
    Indicates that one entity became the parent company of another entity at a later point in time, after some prior state or relationship.
  • B. formerParentCompany
    Indicates that one entity previously served as the parent company of another but no longer holds that status.
  • C. parentCompanyAfterMerger
    Indicates that one company is the resulting parent company of another following a merger.
  • D. ultimateParentCompany
    Indicates that one company is the highest-level controlling entity in a corporate ownership structure, with no parent company above it.
  • E. parentCompanyFoundedByFamily
    Indicates that the parent company was established or originally created by a family or family members.
  • 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_69bd443dbf908190a9401e9c2dc7bd7d completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7517af308190bab5507a9344bf68 completed March 20, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bef7edd6548190acbdc74eb1d0028d completed March 21, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69bd7159adc881909effd4382c395c66 completed March 20, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:39 p.m.