Triple
T6948725
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | National Transcontinental Railway |
E160865
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Canadian National Railway main line |
E248977
|
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: Canadian National Railway main line | Statement: [National Transcontinental Railway, successor, Canadian National Railway main line]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canadian National Railway main line Context triple: [National Transcontinental Railway, successor, Canadian National Railway main line]
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A.
Canadian National Railway main line
chosen
The Canadian National Railway main line is a major transcontinental rail corridor in Canada that carries significant freight and passenger traffic across key regions of the country.
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B.
Canadian Pacific Railway mainline
The Canadian Pacific Railway mainline is a major transcontinental rail corridor that forms a key freight and passenger transportation route across Canada, including through Northern Ontario.
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C.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line is a major transcontinental freight rail corridor in the United States that carries heavy rail traffic across key western routes, including the desert region near Needles, California.
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D.
Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian railway system that played a key role in linking central Canada with the Atlantic coast and the United States before being absorbed into the Canadian National Railway.
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E.
Norfolk Southern Railway main line
The Norfolk Southern Railway main line is a major freight and passenger rail corridor in the eastern United States operated by Norfolk Southern Railway.
- 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_69c68850419081909fb426b8f5a304c7 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6daad028c8190a6db5b2d029d4dfc |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c75874ffcc81908f31ff03e13cb5b0 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 4:26 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:28 p.m.