Triple

T1114466
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 E11064 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Pacific Railway Acts
The Pacific Railway Acts were a series of U.S. federal laws in the 1860s that authorized and subsidized the construction of a transcontinental railroad, dramatically expanding transportation and settlement across the American West.
E130610 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: Pacific Railway Acts | Statement: [Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862, relatedTo, Pacific Railway Acts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Railway Acts
Context triple: [Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862, relatedTo, Pacific Railway Acts]
  • A. Pacific Railway Act of 1864
    The Pacific Railway Act of 1864 was a U.S. federal law that expanded financial incentives and land grants to accelerate construction of the transcontinental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
  • B. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • C. First Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • D. Hepburn Act regulation of railroads
    The Hepburn Act regulation of railroads was a landmark 1906 U.S. law that greatly strengthened federal oversight of railroad rates and practices by expanding the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
  • E. Central Pacific Railroad
    The Central Pacific Railroad was a major 19th-century American railroad company that built the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, linking California to the eastern United States and transforming transportation and commerce.
  • 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: Pacific Railway Acts
Triple: [Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862, relatedTo, Pacific Railway Acts]
Generated description
The Pacific Railway Acts were a series of U.S. federal laws in the 1860s that authorized and subsidized the construction of a transcontinental railroad, dramatically expanding transportation and settlement across the American West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Railway Acts
Target entity description: The Pacific Railway Acts were a series of U.S. federal laws in the 1860s that authorized and subsidized the construction of a transcontinental railroad, dramatically expanding transportation and settlement across the American West.
  • A. Pacific Railway Act of 1864 chosen
    The Pacific Railway Act of 1864 was a U.S. federal law that expanded financial incentives and land grants to accelerate construction of the transcontinental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
  • B. Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862
    The Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was a landmark U.S. federal law that authorized construction of the first transcontinental railroad and provided government support through land grants and bonds.
  • C. First Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • D. Hepburn Act regulation of railroads
    The Hepburn Act regulation of railroads was a landmark 1906 U.S. law that greatly strengthened federal oversight of railroad rates and practices by expanding the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
  • E. Central Pacific Railroad
    The Central Pacific Railroad was a major 19th-century American railroad company that built the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, linking California to the eastern United States and transforming transportation and commerce.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bba161e881908dcd1a66522abf5d completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5ea8abe081908a6f38cb78638740 completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f248db081908596810839ee6160 completed March 7, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5fb242488190bf99f63956aeda13 completed March 7, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.