Triple

T1232854
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York Central Railroad E26481 entity
Predicate routeBetween P24772 FINISHED
Object New York City and St. Louis
New York City and St. Louis are major American cities that historically served as key endpoints of an important east–west rail corridor across the United States.
 E141981 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 York City and St. Louis | Statement: [New York Central Railroad, routeBetween, New York City and St. Louis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: New York City and St. Louis
Context triple: [New York Central Railroad, routeBetween, New York City and St. Louis]
  • A. St. Louis metropolitan area
    The St. Louis metropolitan area is a bi-state urban region centered on the city of St. Louis, spanning parts of Missouri and Illinois and serving as a major Midwestern hub for culture, education, and industry.
  • B. Berlin, New York
    Berlin, New York is a small rural town in eastern upstate New York, situated in the Taconic Mountains near the Massachusetts and Vermont borders.
  • C. St. Louis, Missouri, United States
    St. Louis, Missouri, United States is a major Midwestern city on the Mississippi River known for its iconic Gateway Arch, rich musical and cultural heritage, and historical role as a gateway to the American West.
  • D. New York City
    New York City is the largest city in the United States, a global center of finance, culture, media, and technology.
  • E. New York
    New York is a populous and economically significant U.S. state known for New York City, a global center of finance, culture, and media.
  • 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 York City and St. Louis
Triple: [New York Central Railroad, routeBetween, New York City and St. Louis]
Generated description
New York City and St. Louis are major American cities that historically served as key endpoints of an important east–west rail corridor across the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: New York City and St. Louis
Target entity description: New York City and St. Louis are major American cities that historically served as key endpoints of an important east–west rail corridor across the United States.
  • A. St. Louis metropolitan area
    The St. Louis metropolitan area is a bi-state urban region centered on the city of St. Louis, spanning parts of Missouri and Illinois and serving as a major Midwestern hub for culture, education, and industry.
  • B. Berlin, New York
    Berlin, New York is a small rural town in eastern upstate New York, situated in the Taconic Mountains near the Massachusetts and Vermont borders.
  • C. St. Louis, Missouri, United States
    St. Louis, Missouri, United States is a major Midwestern city on the Mississippi River known for its iconic Gateway Arch, rich musical and cultural heritage, and historical role as a gateway to the American West.
  • D. New York City
    New York City is the largest city in the United States, a global center of finance, culture, media, and technology.
  • E. New York
    New York is a populous and economically significant U.S. state known for New York City, a global center of finance, culture, and media.
  • 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_69a4948571c88190a9191e451e6035fd completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf169868819090cfab7e34c40c67 completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8f75778881908c9c3ea6f8b3392a completed March 7, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9000ffac81908f336b25b3651bb6 completed March 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac905ce0c48190a8465988161f19ed completed March 7, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.