Triple
T6273450
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Comstock Historic District |
E140593
|
entity |
| Predicate | transportationHistory |
P31374
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Virginia and Truckee Railroad |
E147909
|
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: Virginia and Truckee Railroad | Statement: [Comstock Historic District, transportationHistory, Virginia and Truckee Railroad]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia and Truckee Railroad Context triple: [Comstock Historic District, transportationHistory, Virginia and Truckee Railroad]
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A.
Virginia and Truckee Railroad
chosen
The Virginia and Truckee Railroad was a historic 19th-century short-line railway in Nevada that played a crucial role in transporting ore, supplies, and passengers for the Comstock Lode mining boom.
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B.
Winchester and Western Railroad
Winchester and Western Railroad is a regional shortline railroad that operates freight services in parts of the Mid-Atlantic United States, including the South Jersey area.
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C.
California Western Railroad
California Western Railroad is a historic short-line railway in Northern California, best known for its scenic "Skunk Train" excursions through the redwood forests between Willits and Fort Bragg.
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D.
Sacramento Northern Railway
The Sacramento Northern Railway was an interurban electric railway in Northern California that connected the San Francisco Bay Area with the Sacramento Valley and was later controlled by the Western Pacific Railroad.
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E.
Sacramento Southern Railroad
The Sacramento Southern Railroad is a heritage railway in Sacramento, California, offering excursion train rides along the Sacramento River as part of the California State Railroad Museum’s operations.
- 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_69c008cc158881908df6ec94a911c736 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c063be5a148190a8752426d2d220f8 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c519404dbc8190850f7874d2be51b5 |
completed | March 26, 2026, 11:32 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.