Triple

T12058007
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject J. D. Irving, Limited E287091 entity
Predicate subsidiary P258 FINISHED
Object New Brunswick Railway Company
The New Brunswick Railway Company is a Canadian transportation and land-holding firm historically involved in rail operations in New Brunswick and now part of the diversified conglomerate J.D. Irving, Limited.
E962392 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: New Brunswick Railway Company | Statement: [J. D. Irving, Limited, subsidiary, New Brunswick Railway Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Brunswick Railway Company
Context triple: [J. D. Irving, Limited, subsidiary, New Brunswick Railway Company]
  • A. New York and Ottawa Railway
    The New York and Ottawa Railway was a historic cross-border rail line that connected New York State with Ottawa, Canada, facilitating regional passenger and freight transport in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. New York, Ontario and Western Railway
    The New York, Ontario and Western Railway was a regional railroad in the northeastern United States that primarily served upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania, known for hauling coal and dairy products before its mid-20th-century abandonment.
  • C. Canada Southern Railway
    Canada Southern Railway was a 19th- and early 20th-century railway company that operated a key east–west main line across southern Ontario, providing an important international link between the U.S. and Canada.
  • D. Central New England Railway
    The Central New England Railway was a regional railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, primarily serving communities in New York and New England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad
    The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad is a regional rail line in the northeastern United States and Canada that provides freight transportation across parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec.
  • 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: New Brunswick Railway Company
Triple: [J. D. Irving, Limited, subsidiary, New Brunswick Railway Company]
Generated description
The New Brunswick Railway Company is a Canadian transportation and land-holding firm historically involved in rail operations in New Brunswick and now part of the diversified conglomerate J.D. Irving, Limited.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Brunswick Railway Company
Target entity description: The New Brunswick Railway Company is a Canadian transportation and land-holding firm historically involved in rail operations in New Brunswick and now part of the diversified conglomerate J.D. Irving, Limited.
  • A. New York and Ottawa Railway
    The New York and Ottawa Railway was a historic cross-border rail line that connected New York State with Ottawa, Canada, facilitating regional passenger and freight transport in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. New York, Ontario and Western Railway
    The New York, Ontario and Western Railway was a regional railroad in the northeastern United States that primarily served upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania, known for hauling coal and dairy products before its mid-20th-century abandonment.
  • C. Canada Southern Railway
    Canada Southern Railway was a 19th- and early 20th-century railway company that operated a key east–west main line across southern Ontario, providing an important international link between the U.S. and Canada.
  • D. Central New England Railway
    The Central New England Railway was a regional railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, primarily serving communities in New York and New England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad
    The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad is a regional rail line in the northeastern United States and Canada that provides freight transportation across parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec.
  • 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_69d6ab4780948190bdb9f7620c2ac27e completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9043bf0ec8190a51ef2641808320c completed April 10, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f49df216bc8190933e08f495f4d22f completed May 1, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f53d96c3f08190847ba49929b7628f completed May 1, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f564ed64008190bfbeaf0991a7c2b8 completed May 2, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.