Triple
T9490846
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Canadian Pacific Railway |
E228883
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James J. Hill |
E25066
|
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: James J. Hill | Statement: [Canadian Pacific Railway, founder, James J. Hill]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James J. Hill Context triple: [Canadian Pacific Railway, founder, James J. Hill]
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A.
James J. Hill
chosen
James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Collis P. Huntington
Collis P. Huntington was a prominent 19th-century American railroad magnate and industrialist who played a key role in the development of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and major shipbuilding enterprises.
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C.
William Cornelius Van Horne
William Cornelius Van Horne was a prominent 19th-century railway executive best known for overseeing the construction and expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which was crucial to Canada's transcontinental development.
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D.
Henry Villard
Henry Villard was a 19th-century German-American journalist, railroad magnate, and financier known for his leadership in the development of major U.S. railroads and his role as president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
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E.
Charles W. Durant
Charles W. Durant was a 19th-century American financier and railroad executive, known for his involvement in major railway enterprises and as a member of the prominent Durant family.
- 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_69ca847424f081908180305555139f7a |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd80c89ec48190a2ad49394cab9c56 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 8:32 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d12d27c0808190baf5ae04a1b915bb |
completed | April 4, 2026, 3:24 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:55 p.m.