Triple

T661049
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hell on Wheels E11755 entity
Predicate mainSetting P1957 FINISHED
Object First Transcontinental Railroad construction E38256 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: First Transcontinental Railroad construction | Statement: [Hell on Wheels, mainSetting, First Transcontinental Railroad construction]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: First Transcontinental Railroad construction
Context triple: [Hell on Wheels, mainSetting, First Transcontinental Railroad construction]
  • A. First Transcontinental Railroad chosen
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • B. Central Pacific Railroad historic route
    The Central Pacific Railroad historic route is the original transcontinental rail line built in the 1860s that crossed the Sierra Nevada, including through Donner Pass, to connect California with the rest of the United States.
  • C. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • D. The Standard Railroad of the World
    The Standard Railroad of the World was the proud slogan and nickname of the Pennsylvania Railroad, once one of the largest and most influential railroads in the United States.
  • E. Pony Express
    The Pony Express was a short-lived but legendary 19th-century American mail service that used relays of horseback riders to rapidly carry messages across the western United States.
  • 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_69a4932862a0819098be659c814e4981 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49fa954988190841740a587ace466 completed March 1, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5c3963c588190b7116f3f7aad2687 completed March 2, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.