Triple

T11406031
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject JR Hokkaido E270240 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Hokkaido Railway Company
Hokkaido Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator that manages passenger rail services across Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.
 E954031 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: Hokkaido Railway Company | Statement: [JR Hokkaido, fullName, Hokkaido Railway Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hokkaido Railway Company
Context triple: [JR Hokkaido, fullName, Hokkaido Railway Company]
  • A. Kyushu Railway Company
    Kyushu Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator, commonly known as JR Kyushu, that runs extensive passenger rail services across the Kyushu region.
  • B. East Japan Railway Company
    East Japan Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator that runs an extensive network of commuter and high-speed train services across eastern Honshu, including the Tokyo metropolitan area.
  • C. Shikoku Railway Company
    Shikoku Railway Company is a regional Japanese rail operator that runs passenger train services across the island of Shikoku as part of the JR Group network.
  • D. West Japan Railway Company
    West Japan Railway Company is one of Japan’s major regional railway operators, managing extensive rail networks across western Honshu including the Kansai area.
  • E. Central Japan Railway Company
    Central Japan Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator best known for running the Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed rail line connecting Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.
  • 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: Hokkaido Railway Company
Triple: [JR Hokkaido, fullName, Hokkaido Railway Company]
Generated description
Hokkaido Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator that manages passenger rail services across Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hokkaido Railway Company
Target entity description: Hokkaido Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator that manages passenger rail services across Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.
  • A. Kyushu Railway Company
    Kyushu Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator, commonly known as JR Kyushu, that runs extensive passenger rail services across the Kyushu region.
  • B. East Japan Railway Company
    East Japan Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator that runs an extensive network of commuter and high-speed train services across eastern Honshu, including the Tokyo metropolitan area.
  • C. Shikoku Railway Company
    Shikoku Railway Company is a regional Japanese rail operator that runs passenger train services across the island of Shikoku as part of the JR Group network.
  • D. West Japan Railway Company
    West Japan Railway Company is one of Japan’s major regional railway operators, managing extensive rail networks across western Honshu including the Kansai area.
  • E. Central Japan Railway Company
    Central Japan Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator best known for running the Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed rail line connecting Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.
  • 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_69d6aaddeaa8819088b30ef7b50598c9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8014c820c81908538ba4a08e13230 completed April 9, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f43f15873881909e98e79283056573 completed May 1, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448f506a48190a0f1b89ad570fad5 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44ad185cc8190893cf663cfed6980 completed May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.