Triple

T11780423
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alaska Northern Railway E280131 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Tanana Valley Railroad
The Tanana Valley Railroad was a narrow-gauge railway in interior Alaska that played a key role in the early development and transportation infrastructure of the Fairbanks region in the early 20th century.
E946220 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: Tanana Valley Railroad | Statement: [Alaska Northern Railway, precededBy, Tanana Valley Railroad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tanana Valley Railroad
Context triple: [Alaska Northern Railway, precededBy, Tanana Valley Railroad]
  • A. Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
    The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was an early 20th-century short line that served mining regions of Nevada and California, transporting ore and supplies across the Mojave Desert.
  • B. Wallkill Valley Railroad
    The Wallkill Valley Railroad was a historic rail line in New York’s Hudson Valley that played a key role in the region’s 19th- and early 20th-century transportation and industrial development.
  • C. Pine Creek Railroad
    Pine Creek Railroad is a historic narrow-gauge tourist railway in New Jersey that offers scenic train rides through Allaire State Park using vintage locomotives and rolling stock.
  • D. Oregon Trunk Railway
    The Oregon Trunk Railway was a historic railroad line in central Oregon that provided a key north–south route along the Deschutes River, later integrated into the regional network of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.
  • E. Redwood Valley Railway
    Redwood Valley Railway is a miniature live steam railroad in Tilden Regional Park that offers scenic train rides through the Berkeley Hills.
  • 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: Tanana Valley Railroad
Triple: [Alaska Northern Railway, precededBy, Tanana Valley Railroad]
Generated description
The Tanana Valley Railroad was a narrow-gauge railway in interior Alaska that played a key role in the early development and transportation infrastructure of the Fairbanks region in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tanana Valley Railroad
Target entity description: The Tanana Valley Railroad was a narrow-gauge railway in interior Alaska that played a key role in the early development and transportation infrastructure of the Fairbanks region in the early 20th century.
  • A. Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
    The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was an early 20th-century short line that served mining regions of Nevada and California, transporting ore and supplies across the Mojave Desert.
  • B. Wallkill Valley Railroad
    The Wallkill Valley Railroad was a historic rail line in New York’s Hudson Valley that played a key role in the region’s 19th- and early 20th-century transportation and industrial development.
  • C. Pine Creek Railroad
    Pine Creek Railroad is a historic narrow-gauge tourist railway in New Jersey that offers scenic train rides through Allaire State Park using vintage locomotives and rolling stock.
  • D. Oregon Trunk Railway
    The Oregon Trunk Railway was a historic railroad line in central Oregon that provided a key north–south route along the Deschutes River, later integrated into the regional network of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.
  • E. Redwood Valley Railway
    Redwood Valley Railway is a miniature live steam railroad in Tilden Regional Park that offers scenic train rides through the Berkeley Hills.
  • 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_69d6ab01d2688190ad8ed6bda487eaa5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5623f708190a18aea570577a3f6 completed April 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f090c828f0819097662c048542b5da completed April 28, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0bd3f39608190b29027b30664bd9c completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f0ef5afd448190953b5d9929478132 completed April 28, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.