Triple

T11105218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Pacific Railroad E262609 entity
Predicate acquisitionCompletedBy P22682 FINISHED
Object Union Pacific Corporation E2147 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Union Pacific Corporation | Statement: [Southern Pacific Railroad, acquisitionCompletedBy, Union Pacific Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union Pacific Corporation
Context triple: [Southern Pacific Railroad, acquisitionCompletedBy, Union Pacific Corporation]
  • A. Union Pacific Railroad chosen
    Union Pacific Railroad is one of the largest freight rail networks in the United States, operating an extensive system that spans the western two-thirds of the country.
  • B. Santa Fe Pacific Corporation
    Santa Fe Pacific Corporation was a diversified American holding company best known for owning and operating the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and related natural resource businesses in the late 20th century.
  • C. BNSF Railway
    BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, operating an extensive system that spans the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
  • D. Southern Pacific Railroad
    Southern Pacific Railroad was a major American railroad company that operated extensive rail networks across the western and southwestern United States from the 19th to the late 20th century.
  • E. Consolidated Rail Corporation
    Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail, was a major U.S. freight railroad created in the 1970s to take over and revitalize the operations of several bankrupt Northeastern railroads.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: acquisitionCompletedBy
Context triple: [Southern Pacific Railroad, acquisitionCompletedBy, Union Pacific Corporation]
  • A. acquisitionResultedIn
    Indicates that an acquisition event led to a particular outcome, state, or consequence for the involved entities.
  • B. acquisitionAnnouncedBy
    Indicates that an acquisition event was publicly announced by the specified announcing entity (such as a company or organization).
  • C. laterAcquiredBy chosen
    Indicates that one entity was acquired by another entity at a later point in time, after some prior state or ownership.
  • D. acquiredWith
    Indicates that one entity was obtained, purchased, or gained together with or by means of another entity.
  • E. acquisitionType
    Indicates the specific kind or category of acquisition relationship that exists between entities (such as a company buying another company, assets, or a controlling stake).
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69e496a593c4819090d295119ce50e48 completed April 19, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d7441aa3548190b92dbde57841c135 completed April 9, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.