Triple

T12453648
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bellevue, Ohio E297596 entity
Predicate railroadHeritage P28401 FINISHED
Object Nickel Plate Road
Nickel Plate Road, formally known as the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, was a prominent Midwestern U.S. railroad famed for its fast freight service and iconic steam locomotives.
E985262 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: Nickel Plate Road | Statement: [Bellevue, Ohio, railroadHeritage, Nickel Plate Road]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nickel Plate Road
Context triple: [Bellevue, Ohio, railroadHeritage, Nickel Plate Road]
  • A. Wabash Railroad
    Wabash Railroad was a major Midwestern American railroad company that operated an extensive network connecting key cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Buffalo during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Missouri Pacific Railroad
    Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
  • C. Milwaukee Road
    The Milwaukee Road was a major American railroad that operated an extensive Midwestern and Pacific Northwest network, noted especially for its electrified mountain routes and eventual bankruptcy in the late 20th century.
  • D. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
    The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, commonly known as the Frisco, was a major American railroad that operated in the central and south-central United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
  • E. St. Louis Southwestern Railway
    St. Louis Southwestern Railway, commonly known as the Cotton Belt, was a regional U.S. railroad that primarily served the south-central states and later became part of the Southern Pacific system.
  • 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: Nickel Plate Road
Triple: [Bellevue, Ohio, railroadHeritage, Nickel Plate Road]
Generated description
Nickel Plate Road, formally known as the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, was a prominent Midwestern U.S. railroad famed for its fast freight service and iconic steam locomotives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nickel Plate Road
Target entity description: Nickel Plate Road, formally known as the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, was a prominent Midwestern U.S. railroad famed for its fast freight service and iconic steam locomotives.
  • A. Wabash Railroad
    Wabash Railroad was a major Midwestern American railroad company that operated an extensive network connecting key cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Buffalo during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Missouri Pacific Railroad
    Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
  • C. Milwaukee Road
    The Milwaukee Road was a major American railroad that operated an extensive Midwestern and Pacific Northwest network, noted especially for its electrified mountain routes and eventual bankruptcy in the late 20th century.
  • D. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
    The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, commonly known as the Frisco, was a major American railroad that operated in the central and south-central United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
  • E. St. Louis Southwestern Railway
    St. Louis Southwestern Railway, commonly known as the Cotton Belt, was a regional U.S. railroad that primarily served the south-central states and later became part of the Southern Pacific system.
  • 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_69d6ada166c48190b902972cd2408fa3 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94da0b5988190b9df26dd3bb87337 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f16e87c8190b7e9f61561ae865a completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6412345ac8190826f4fecb8055fb5 completed May 2, 2026, 6:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64231606481909b8dd9d878670a6c completed May 2, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.