Triple
T6149460
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Petersburg was a major railroad hub supplying Richmond |
E137160
|
entity |
| Predicate | connectedBy |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Petersburg Railroad |
E328796
|
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: Petersburg Railroad | Statement: [Petersburg was a major railroad hub supplying Richmond, connectedBy, Petersburg Railroad]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Petersburg Railroad Context triple: [Petersburg was a major railroad hub supplying Richmond, connectedBy, Petersburg Railroad]
-
A.
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad
chosen
The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was a 19th-century rail line in Virginia that played a key role in connecting Richmond to southern routes and later became part of larger systems like the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
-
B.
Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad was a regional rail line in Northern Virginia that operated from the 19th to the mid-20th century, later converted into the popular Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail.
-
C.
Virginian Railway
The Virginian Railway was an early 20th-century American coal-hauling railroad that operated primarily in West Virginia and Virginia, renowned for its efficient, heavy-duty freight operations and later incorporation into the Norfolk and Western Railway.
-
D.
Virginia Central Railroad
The Virginia Central Railroad was a 19th-century Virginia railway that played a key role in regional transportation and Civil War logistics before becoming a principal predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
-
E.
Seaboard System Railroad
Seaboard System Railroad was a major U.S. freight railroad of the 1980s that consolidated several southeastern carriers and later became part of CSX Transportation.
- 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_69c008a2c6308190a56519b22d55d083 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c05ce21820819096be9159d6b70a5f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:19 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c13608944481909e22df6131a06e41 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:46 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:16 p.m.