Triple

T7403778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Puffing Billy E170814 entity
Predicate operator P179 FINISHED
Object Wylam Colliery railway
Wylam Colliery railway was an early industrial wagonway in Northumberland, England, notable for pioneering steam locomotive haulage during the early 19th century.
 E662299 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: Wylam Colliery railway | Statement: [Puffing Billy, operator, Wylam Colliery railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wylam Colliery railway
Context triple: [Puffing Billy, operator, Wylam Colliery railway]
  • A. Talyllyn Railway
    Talyllyn Railway is a historic narrow-gauge heritage railway in Wales, renowned as the world’s first preserved railway to be operated primarily by volunteers.
  • B. Sirhowy Railway
    The Sirhowy Railway was a historic Welsh railway line that played a key role in transporting coal and iron through the Sirhowy Valley during the industrial era.
  • C. Ebbw Valley Railway
    The Ebbw Valley Railway is a passenger rail line in South Wales that connects communities in the Ebbw Valley with larger hubs such as Cardiff, supporting regional commuting and regeneration.
  • D. Rhymney Railway
    Rhymney Railway was a historic Welsh railway company that primarily served the coal-mining communities of the Rhymney Valley and surrounding areas.
  • E. Taff Vale Railway
    Taff Vale Railway was a historic Welsh railway company that played a key role in transporting coal and passengers in South Wales during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Wylam Colliery railway
Triple: [Puffing Billy, operator, Wylam Colliery railway]
Generated description
Wylam Colliery railway was an early industrial wagonway in Northumberland, England, notable for pioneering steam locomotive haulage during the early 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wylam Colliery railway
Target entity description: Wylam Colliery railway was an early industrial wagonway in Northumberland, England, notable for pioneering steam locomotive haulage during the early 19th century.
  • A. Talyllyn Railway
    Talyllyn Railway is a historic narrow-gauge heritage railway in Wales, renowned as the world’s first preserved railway to be operated primarily by volunteers.
  • B. Sirhowy Railway
    The Sirhowy Railway was a historic Welsh railway line that played a key role in transporting coal and iron through the Sirhowy Valley during the industrial era.
  • C. Ebbw Valley Railway
    The Ebbw Valley Railway is a passenger rail line in South Wales that connects communities in the Ebbw Valley with larger hubs such as Cardiff, supporting regional commuting and regeneration.
  • D. Rhymney Railway
    Rhymney Railway was a historic Welsh railway company that primarily served the coal-mining communities of the Rhymney Valley and surrounding areas.
  • E. Taff Vale Railway
    Taff Vale Railway was a historic Welsh railway company that played a key role in transporting coal and passengers in South Wales during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69c68a6010108190925e5284de022660 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2701b108190be39174d4534f231 completed March 27, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8111540f08190919bc9d9670f5ef2 completed March 28, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c811c9c5e48190a610d890780c7aa4 completed March 28, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8128e49948190822787e76b1663a6 completed March 28, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:10 p.m.