Triple
T971041
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Manchester–Preston line |
E20944
|
entity |
| Predicate | railwaySystem |
P522
|
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: [Manchester–Preston line, railwaySystem, British Rail]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Rail Context triple: [Manchester–Preston line, railwaySystem, 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.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Northern Trains
Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
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E.
Railtrack
Railtrack was the former private owner and operator of most of Britain’s railway infrastructure, which was later replaced by the publicly owned Network Rail after financial and safety controversies.
- 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_69a493b33d2c81909c52c369d3ca8436 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b44aa6088190a90c44a8f694ec41 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac5992e4a88190b10b98efd24c3616 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.