Triple

T83305
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Manchester Victoria E1674 entity
Predicate formerOperator P179 FINISHED
Object British Rail
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
E15757 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: British Rail | Statement: [Manchester Victoria, formerOperator, British Rail]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Rail
Context triple: [Manchester Victoria, formerOperator, British Rail]
  • A. Northern Trains
    Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
  • B. National Rail
    National Rail is the collective name for the passenger rail services and network in Great Britain, encompassing most regional and intercity train operations outside of urban metro systems.
  • C. London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The London, Midland and Scottish Railway was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated an extensive network across England, Scotland, and Wales until nationalisation in 1948.
  • D. Network Rail
    Network Rail is the owner and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain, responsible for tracks, signals, major stations, and related assets.
  • E. London and North Western Railway
    London and North Western Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century British railway company that operated extensive routes across England and Wales before becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.
  • 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: British Rail
Triple: [Manchester Victoria, formerOperator, British Rail]
Generated description
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Rail
Target entity description: British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
  • A. Northern Trains
    Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
  • B. National Rail
    National Rail is the collective name for the passenger rail services and network in Great Britain, encompassing most regional and intercity train operations outside of urban metro systems.
  • C. London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The London, Midland and Scottish Railway was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated an extensive network across England, Scotland, and Wales until nationalisation in 1948.
  • D. Network Rail
    Network Rail is the owner and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain, responsible for tracks, signals, major stations, and related assets.
  • E. London and North Western Railway
    London and North Western Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century British railway company that operated extensive routes across England and Wales before becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.
  • 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_69a24c8150408190910a693eb51c1f71 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2567c90308190a9b989c586f7e559 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b014ab2c8190bcef8382280932dc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b0bd233c81908f3595abdfa51666 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b122a168819088be9e5455a1aac1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.