Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Railway Series E245395 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Percy the Small Engine
Percy the Small Engine is a small green saddle tank engine from the Thomas & Friends/ Railway Series universe, known for his cheeky, eager-to-help personality and close friendship with Thomas.
E862025 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: Percy the Small Engine | Statement: [The Railway Series, hasMainCharacter, Percy the Small Engine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percy the Small Engine
Context triple: [The Railway Series, hasMainCharacter, Percy the Small Engine]
  • A. The Dinky
    The Dinky is a short commuter rail shuttle service that connects Princeton University to the nearby Princeton Junction station on New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor line.
  • B. Mr Gumpy's Motor Car
    Mr Gumpy's Motor Car is a classic children's picture book by John Burningham that follows the humorous misadventures of Mr. Gumpy and a growing group of animal passengers on a countryside car trip.
  • C. Noddy
    Noddy is a popular British children's book character, a wooden boy who lives in the toy town of Toyland, created by author Enid Blyton.
  • D. Mr. Toad
    Mr. Toad is the impulsive, adventure-loving amphibian aristocrat from Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
  • E. Peruna the Pony
    Peruna the Pony is the live Shetland pony mascot of Southern Methodist University, known for leading the school's football team onto the field at games.
  • 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: Percy the Small Engine
Triple: [The Railway Series, hasMainCharacter, Percy the Small Engine]
Generated description
Percy the Small Engine is a small green saddle tank engine from the Thomas & Friends/ Railway Series universe, known for his cheeky, eager-to-help personality and close friendship with Thomas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percy the Small Engine
Target entity description: Percy the Small Engine is a small green saddle tank engine from the Thomas & Friends/ Railway Series universe, known for his cheeky, eager-to-help personality and close friendship with Thomas.
  • A. The Dinky
    The Dinky is a short commuter rail shuttle service that connects Princeton University to the nearby Princeton Junction station on New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor line.
  • B. Mr Gumpy's Motor Car
    Mr Gumpy's Motor Car is a classic children's picture book by John Burningham that follows the humorous misadventures of Mr. Gumpy and a growing group of animal passengers on a countryside car trip.
  • C. Noddy
    Noddy is a popular British children's book character, a wooden boy who lives in the toy town of Toyland, created by author Enid Blyton.
  • D. Mr. Toad
    Mr. Toad is the impulsive, adventure-loving amphibian aristocrat from Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
  • E. Peruna the Pony
    Peruna the Pony is the live Shetland pony mascot of Southern Methodist University, known for leading the school's football team onto the field at games.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9fc72d081908d81c71133973daf completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbfae96c8190ac496e9a1158afe4 completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d6a0188190a7ee6de5aab50486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859e40bf88190a6dc8deed3049d31 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:09 p.m.