Triple

T6462547
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Thumb (locomotive) E142154 entity
Predicate category P87 FINISHED
Object Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives are the various steam and later diesel and electric engines that powered one of the United States’ earliest and most historically significant railroads.
E594341 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: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives | Statement: [Tom Thumb (locomotive), category, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives
Context triple: [Tom Thumb (locomotive), category, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives]
  • A. Forney locomotive
    The Forney locomotive is a compact 19th-century steam tank locomotive type, notable for its rigid wheelbase and rear-mounted fuel and water tanks, widely used on urban elevated and commuter railways.
  • B. Locomotive Works
    Locomotive Works is the section of the Derby railway works dedicated to the construction, maintenance, and repair of railway locomotives.
  • C. Amtrak locomotives
    Amtrak locomotives are the diesel and electric engines that power the United States’ national passenger rail services across both short- and long-distance routes.
  • D. Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshires
    The Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshires were powerful high-speed steam freight locomotives famed for their role in hauling fast freight trains across the Nickel Plate Road in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars
    Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars were the rolling stock used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to transport goods across its extensive rail network in the United States.
  • 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: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives
Triple: [Tom Thumb (locomotive), category, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives]
Generated description
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives are the various steam and later diesel and electric engines that powered one of the United States’ earliest and most historically significant railroads.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives
Target entity description: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives are the various steam and later diesel and electric engines that powered one of the United States’ earliest and most historically significant railroads.
  • A. Forney locomotive
    The Forney locomotive is a compact 19th-century steam tank locomotive type, notable for its rigid wheelbase and rear-mounted fuel and water tanks, widely used on urban elevated and commuter railways.
  • B. Locomotive Works
    Locomotive Works is the section of the Derby railway works dedicated to the construction, maintenance, and repair of railway locomotives.
  • C. Amtrak locomotives
    Amtrak locomotives are the diesel and electric engines that power the United States’ national passenger rail services across both short- and long-distance routes.
  • D. Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshires
    The Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshires were powerful high-speed steam freight locomotives famed for their role in hauling fast freight trains across the Nickel Plate Road in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars
    Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars were the rolling stock used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to transport goods across its extensive rail network in the United States.
  • 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_69c008d2f91c8190a8178767a35e08fc completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c069f7e5908190ae4d8da2b14d274f completed March 22, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c64be4e6888190a685f447e9950163 completed March 27, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c64e4413f481908561a86bc9a9b0b2 completed March 27, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c64ec0d40881908fda2e994f0f6ed5 completed March 27, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:49 p.m.