Triple

T11105206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Pacific Railroad E262609 entity
Predicate owned P347 FINISHED
Object St. Louis Southwestern Railway
St. Louis Southwestern Railway, commonly known as the Cotton Belt, was a regional U.S. railroad that primarily served the south-central states and later became part of the Southern Pacific system.
E905526 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: St. Louis Southwestern Railway | Statement: [Southern Pacific Railroad, owned, St. Louis Southwestern Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Context triple: [Southern Pacific Railroad, owned, St. Louis Southwestern Railway]
  • A. Kansas City Southern Railway
    Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
  • B. St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad
    The St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad was a regional U.S. railroad line that operated in the early 20th century, later becoming part of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (Frisco) system.
  • C. Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
    The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a prominent Southern U.S. railroad that connected key cities across Tennessee and neighboring states, playing a major role in regional transportation and commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Arkansas and Louisiana Midland Railroad
    The Arkansas and Louisiana Midland Railroad was a regional shortline railroad that operated freight and limited passenger service in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
  • E. Missouri Pacific Railroad
    Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
  • 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: St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Triple: [Southern Pacific Railroad, owned, St. Louis Southwestern Railway]
Generated description
St. Louis Southwestern Railway, commonly known as the Cotton Belt, was a regional U.S. railroad that primarily served the south-central states and later became part of the Southern Pacific system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Target entity description: St. Louis Southwestern Railway, commonly known as the Cotton Belt, was a regional U.S. railroad that primarily served the south-central states and later became part of the Southern Pacific system.
  • A. Kansas City Southern Railway
    Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
  • B. St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad
    The St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad was a regional U.S. railroad line that operated in the early 20th century, later becoming part of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (Frisco) system.
  • C. Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
    The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a prominent Southern U.S. railroad that connected key cities across Tennessee and neighboring states, playing a major role in regional transportation and commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Arkansas and Louisiana Midland Railroad
    The Arkansas and Louisiana Midland Railroad was a regional shortline railroad that operated freight and limited passenger service in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
  • E. Missouri Pacific Railroad
    Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
  • 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_69d6aa9a40d88190a373e2c7e48285db completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d79a2e319881909e66d3c0c73b56bc completed April 9, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e42d7016908190bb7aadadacb5b50f completed April 19, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e42f3dd02c8190b40bc692c24b2ff4 completed April 19, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4375eaf448190a17f8df1e83145e0 completed April 19, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.