Triple
T646043
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Boston and Maine Railroad |
E11243
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Guilford Transportation Industries
Guilford Transportation Industries was a major New England-based railroad holding company that acquired and operated several regional railroads, later rebranding as Pan Am Railways.
|
E81513
|
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: Guilford Transportation Industries | Statement: [Boston and Maine Railroad, successor, Guilford Transportation Industries]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guilford Transportation Industries Context triple: [Boston and Maine Railroad, successor, Guilford Transportation Industries]
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A.
United Aircraft Corporation
United Aircraft Corporation was the original name of the American industrial conglomerate that evolved into United Technologies Corporation, a major aerospace and defense company.
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B.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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C.
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Wright Aeronautical Corporation was a major early 20th-century American aircraft engine manufacturer known for producing reliable radial engines used in pioneering long-distance and military aviation.
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D.
Huff-Daland Aero Corporation
Huff-Daland Aero Corporation was an early American aircraft manufacturer best known for developing some of the first specialized crop-dusting airplanes in the 1920s.
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E.
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Lubin Manufacturing Company was an early American film production company and studio, active in the silent era and known for its role in the development of the motion picture industry.
- 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: Guilford Transportation Industries Triple: [Boston and Maine Railroad, successor, Guilford Transportation Industries]
Generated description
Guilford Transportation Industries was a major New England-based railroad holding company that acquired and operated several regional railroads, later rebranding as Pan Am Railways.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guilford Transportation Industries Target entity description: Guilford Transportation Industries was a major New England-based railroad holding company that acquired and operated several regional railroads, later rebranding as Pan Am Railways.
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A.
United Aircraft Corporation
United Aircraft Corporation was the original name of the American industrial conglomerate that evolved into United Technologies Corporation, a major aerospace and defense company.
-
B.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
-
C.
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Wright Aeronautical Corporation was a major early 20th-century American aircraft engine manufacturer known for producing reliable radial engines used in pioneering long-distance and military aviation.
-
D.
Huff-Daland Aero Corporation
Huff-Daland Aero Corporation was an early American aircraft manufacturer best known for developing some of the first specialized crop-dusting airplanes in the 1920s.
-
E.
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Lubin Manufacturing Company was an early American film production company and studio, active in the silent era and known for its role in the development of the motion picture industry.
- 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_69a493266a2881909daf4c40f719dee8 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49f1b24b08190897d8aedb877bd83 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a58a716de88190854e13fb5143b9b3 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:02 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a58f0211cc81908da2813dd0c01be7 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:22 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a58f58dfa88190a29ba56270267d05 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:23 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.