Triple
T1177730
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James J. Hill |
E25066
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Great Northern Railway |
E23883
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Great Northern Railway | Statement: [James J. Hill, employer, Great Northern Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Northern Railway Context triple: [James J. Hill, employer, Great Northern Railway]
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A.
Great Northern Railway
chosen
Great Northern Railway was a major American transcontinental railroad that operated in the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
North British Railway
North British Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish railway company that operated extensive routes across central and eastern Scotland before becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
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C.
Midland Railway
Midland Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century British railway company that operated extensive routes across central and northern England and played a key role in the development of the UK rail network.
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D.
Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway is a major British train operating company providing intercity and regional rail services across western and southern England and South Wales.
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E.
South Eastern Railway
South Eastern Railway was a 19th-century British railway company that operated routes in southeast England, including services through Kent and to the Channel ports.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a494267b4c819088c97a59182bf56a |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bd0ebbd08190a441d16a5b65a15e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac7f3443588190af6c06383e904e7d |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:40 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.