Triple
T94906
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Chicago Surface Lines |
E1908
|
entity |
| Predicate | operatedBy |
P86
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Chicago City Railway Company |
E12509
|
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: Chicago City Railway Company | Statement: [Chicago Surface Lines, operatedBy, Chicago City Railway Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chicago City Railway Company Context triple: [Chicago Surface Lines, operatedBy, Chicago City Railway Company]
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A.
Chicago Rapid Transit Company
The Chicago Rapid Transit Company was the private operator of Chicago’s elevated “L” rail system in the early 20th century before public transit was consolidated under the Chicago Transit Authority.
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B.
Chicago Surface Lines
Chicago Surface Lines was a privately operated streetcar and bus system that provided most of Chicago’s surface public transportation in the first half of the 20th century.
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C.
Chicago Railways Company
chosen
The Chicago Railways Company was a major early 20th-century street railway operator in Chicago that formed a key part of the city’s urban transit system before consolidation into unified public transportation.
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D.
Chicago Transit Authority
The Chicago Transit Authority is the primary public transportation agency serving Chicago and several surrounding suburbs, operating the city’s extensive network of buses and rapid transit trains.
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E.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad was a major Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic rail system that formed a key part of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s network, linking important industrial cities across the region.
- 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_69a24d4862f881908cc8b89d3a78031d |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a24fd4777c81909ea9b9a6bd4f7ad5 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a2917a5a7081909f1c3ec53bc51dfb |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 6:55 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.