Triple
T5487076
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway |
E123608
|
entity |
| Predicate | mergedInto |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object | New York Central and Hudson River Railroad |
E26481
|
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: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad | Statement: [Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, mergedInto, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Context triple: [Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, mergedInto, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad]
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A.
New York Central Railroad
chosen
New York Central Railroad was one of the largest and most influential American railroads, known for its extensive network in the northeastern United States and iconic passenger trains like the 20th Century Limited.
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B.
Delaware and Hudson Railway
The Delaware and Hudson Railway was a historic railroad in the northeastern United States that evolved from early canal operations into a major regional freight and passenger carrier.
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C.
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad was an early 20th-century rapid transit system that operated tunnels and trains between Manhattan and New Jersey, forming the core of what is now the PATH system.
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D.
New York and Harlem Railroad
The New York and Harlem Railroad was one of the earliest rail lines in New York State, forming a key part of the region’s 19th-century transportation network and later becoming a cornerstone of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s railroad empire.
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E.
New York Connecting Railroad
The New York Connecting Railroad is a freight and passenger rail line in New York City that links the Long Island Rail Road and the Northeast Corridor, notably via the Hell Gate Bridge between Queens and the Bronx.
- 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_69bd464a2d908190869324ce176779c8 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd92639b3481908845c280d334117f |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf88e60d9c81909c735c6691ffc65f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:10 p.m.