Triple

T10509509
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sheng Xuanhuai E247873 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Beiyang Railway Company
The Beiyang Railway Company was a pioneering late Qing dynasty Chinese railway enterprise that played a key role in the early development of modern rail transport and industrialization in northern China.
E868034 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: Beiyang Railway Company | Statement: [Sheng Xuanhuai, founded, Beiyang Railway Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beiyang Railway Company
Context triple: [Sheng Xuanhuai, founded, Beiyang Railway Company]
  • A. South Manchuria Railway Company
    The South Manchuria Railway Company was a powerful Japanese state-backed enterprise that operated railways and administered extensive economic and colonial interests in Manchuria in the early 20th century.
  • B. Zhengtai Railway
    The Zhengtai Railway was a strategically important rail line in North China that became a key target of Chinese Communist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • C. China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
    The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company was a pioneering late Qing dynasty Chinese shipping enterprise that symbolized the country's early efforts at state-led industrial and commercial modernization.
  • D. Tianjin–Pukou Railway
    The Tianjin–Pukou Railway is a historic north–south trunk rail line in China that connects the port city of Tianjin with Pukou near Nanjing, forming a key segment of the country’s early mainline railway network.
  • E. Shenyang–Jilin Railway
    The Shenyang–Jilin Railway is a major rail line in northeastern China that connects the cities of Shenyang and Jilin, serving as an important corridor for regional passenger and freight transport.
  • 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: Beiyang Railway Company
Triple: [Sheng Xuanhuai, founded, Beiyang Railway Company]
Generated description
The Beiyang Railway Company was a pioneering late Qing dynasty Chinese railway enterprise that played a key role in the early development of modern rail transport and industrialization in northern China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beiyang Railway Company
Target entity description: The Beiyang Railway Company was a pioneering late Qing dynasty Chinese railway enterprise that played a key role in the early development of modern rail transport and industrialization in northern China.
  • A. South Manchuria Railway Company
    The South Manchuria Railway Company was a powerful Japanese state-backed enterprise that operated railways and administered extensive economic and colonial interests in Manchuria in the early 20th century.
  • B. Zhengtai Railway
    The Zhengtai Railway was a strategically important rail line in North China that became a key target of Chinese Communist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • C. China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
    The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company was a pioneering late Qing dynasty Chinese shipping enterprise that symbolized the country's early efforts at state-led industrial and commercial modernization.
  • D. Tianjin–Pukou Railway
    The Tianjin–Pukou Railway is a historic north–south trunk rail line in China that connects the port city of Tianjin with Pukou near Nanjing, forming a key segment of the country’s early mainline railway network.
  • E. Shenyang–Jilin Railway
    The Shenyang–Jilin Railway is a major rail line in northeastern China that connects the cities of Shenyang and Jilin, serving as an important corridor for regional passenger and freight transport.
  • 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_69d381c4aa948190942e1d803143fb0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d509b359ac8190b3683cc6b9c70a71 completed April 7, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d8dcee1db081908c791867e2438d30 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8e8ca94508190a2a6beca7f01fbd8 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d9020bce488190b78e555cdd5caec4 completed April 10, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:27 p.m.