Triple

T5501625
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Regional Railways E144341 entity
Predicate replacedBy P101 FINISHED
Object North West Trains
North West Trains was a British train operating company that ran regional and commuter rail services in North West England following rail privatization in the mid-1990s.
E532227 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: North West Trains | Statement: [Regional Railways, replacedBy, North West Trains]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North West Trains
Context triple: [Regional Railways, replacedBy, North West Trains]
  • A. Northern Trains
    Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
  • B. Northern Rail
    Northern Rail is a British train operating company providing regional and commuter rail services across Northern England.
  • C. Virgin Trains
    Virgin Trains was a British train operating company under Richard Branson’s Virgin Group brand that ran long-distance passenger rail services in the UK.
  • D. London North Eastern Railway
    London North Eastern Railway is a British train operating company that runs long-distance passenger services on the East Coast Main Line between London and destinations in northern England and Scotland.
  • E. Arriva Trains Northern
    Arriva Trains Northern was a former British train operating company that provided regional and commuter rail services across Northern England.
  • 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: North West Trains
Triple: [Regional Railways, replacedBy, North West Trains]
Generated description
North West Trains was a British train operating company that ran regional and commuter rail services in North West England following rail privatization in the mid-1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North West Trains
Target entity description: North West Trains was a British train operating company that ran regional and commuter rail services in North West England following rail privatization in the mid-1990s.
  • A. Northern Trains
    Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
  • B. Northern Rail
    Northern Rail is a British train operating company providing regional and commuter rail services across Northern England.
  • C. Virgin Trains
    Virgin Trains was a British train operating company under Richard Branson’s Virgin Group brand that ran long-distance passenger rail services in the UK.
  • D. London North Eastern Railway
    London North Eastern Railway is a British train operating company that runs long-distance passenger services on the East Coast Main Line between London and destinations in northern England and Scotland.
  • E. Arriva Trains Northern
    Arriva Trains Northern was a former British train operating company that provided regional and commuter rail services across Northern England.
  • 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_69c008f5a2748190bce7a39aabf87a6d completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f0a512c81908f077378917e5879 completed March 22, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027a10fa08190853d45354fd9b044 completed March 22, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0345909388190bfa746d22474ab8f completed March 22, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0354e95808190b4386e2796291dba completed March 22, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:32 p.m.