Triple

T1290435
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Class I freight railroads in the United States E27533 entity
Predicate includes P1393 FINISHED
Object Kansas City Southern Railway
Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
E158040 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: Kansas City Southern Railway | Statement: [Class I freight railroads in the United States, includes, Kansas City Southern Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kansas City Southern Railway
Context triple: [Class I freight railroads in the United States, includes, Kansas City Southern Railway]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Texas and Pacific Railway
    The Texas and Pacific Railway was a major 19th- and 20th-century American railroad that operated across Texas and into the southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional transportation and economic development.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Norfolk Southern Railway
    Norfolk Southern Railway is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
  • E. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
    The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was a major American railroad that became one of the largest and most influential rail systems in the United States, central to the development of the Southwest.
  • 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: Kansas City Southern Railway
Triple: [Class I freight railroads in the United States, includes, Kansas City Southern Railway]
Generated description
Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kansas City Southern Railway
Target entity description: Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Texas and Pacific Railway
    The Texas and Pacific Railway was a major 19th- and 20th-century American railroad that operated across Texas and into the southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional transportation and economic development.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Norfolk Southern Railway
    Norfolk Southern Railway is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
  • E. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
    The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was a major American railroad that became one of the largest and most influential rail systems in the United States, central to the development of the Southwest.
  • 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_69a496d4ec448190ad653b2590c46711 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0d6af908190ade9c481cc6f0ad8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd4729af08190a6de5388dab69fee completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd4efb73881908dda4973befc6aa5 completed March 8, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd56ef0b081909df2efee97a4197c completed March 8, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.