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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.