Triple
T8945076
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Burnley Central railway station |
E213200
|
entity |
| Predicate | formerOperator |
P179
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Rail |
E15757
|
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: British Rail | Statement: [Burnley Central railway station, formerOperator, British Rail]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Rail Context triple: [Burnley Central railway station, formerOperator, British Rail]
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A.
British Rail
chosen
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.
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B.
Anglia Railways
Anglia Railways was a former British train operating company that ran passenger rail services in East Anglia following the privatisation of UK railways.
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C.
Northern Rail
Northern Rail is a British train operating company providing regional and commuter rail services across Northern England.
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D.
Southern Railway (UK)
Southern Railway (UK) was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated routes in southern England, including busy commuter and coastal lines, until nationalisation in 1948.
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E.
Virgin Trains
Virgin Trains was a British train operating company under Richard Branson’s Virgin Group brand that ran long-distance passenger rail services in the UK.
- 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_69ca839843408190a39069a029a89f15 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc66db998c8190999a7a686bbdda1f |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:29 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfc1cdfa6c8190af7b6312c73d59f9 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 1:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:59 p.m.