Triple

T1290450
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Class I freight railroads in the United States E27533 entity
Predicate historicallyIncluded P12102 FINISHED
Object Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island Railroad was a major American railroad that operated across the Midwest and Southwest, known for its extensive freight and passenger services before its bankruptcy and liquidation in the 1980s.
E148588 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: Rock Island Railroad | Statement: [Class I freight railroads in the United States, historicallyIncluded, Rock Island Railroad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rock Island Railroad
Context triple: [Class I freight railroads in the United States, historicallyIncluded, Rock Island Railroad]
  • A. Illinois Central Railroad
    The Illinois Central Railroad was a major American rail carrier that played a pivotal role in connecting the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico and fostering economic development along its north–south route.
  • B. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
    The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a major American railroad company in the Midwestern and Western United States, known for its extensive passenger and freight services and its role in developing routes between Chicago, Denver, and the Pacific Coast.
  • C. Chicago and North Western Railway Company
    The Chicago and North Western Railway Company was a major Midwestern American railroad that operated an extensive network of lines connecting Chicago with the upper Midwest and Great Plains from the 19th through the 20th century.
  • D. Chicago Railways Company
    The Chicago Railways Company was a major early 20th-century street railway operator in Chicago that formed a key part of the city’s urban transit system before consolidation into unified public transportation.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Rock Island Railroad
Triple: [Class I freight railroads in the United States, historicallyIncluded, Rock Island Railroad]
Generated description
Rock Island Railroad was a major American railroad that operated across the Midwest and Southwest, known for its extensive freight and passenger services before its bankruptcy and liquidation in the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rock Island Railroad
Target entity description: Rock Island Railroad was a major American railroad that operated across the Midwest and Southwest, known for its extensive freight and passenger services before its bankruptcy and liquidation in the 1980s.
  • A. Illinois Central Railroad
    The Illinois Central Railroad was a major American rail carrier that played a pivotal role in connecting the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico and fostering economic development along its north–south route.
  • B. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
    The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a major American railroad company in the Midwestern and Western United States, known for its extensive passenger and freight services and its role in developing routes between Chicago, Denver, and the Pacific Coast.
  • C. Chicago and North Western Railway Company
    The Chicago and North Western Railway Company was a major Midwestern American railroad that operated an extensive network of lines connecting Chicago with the upper Midwest and Great Plains from the 19th through the 20th century.
  • D. Chicago Railways Company
    The Chicago Railways Company was a major early 20th-century street railway operator in Chicago that formed a key part of the city’s urban transit system before consolidation into unified public transportation.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69acb2ff0d4c8190893901e041f30171 completed March 7, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acb364f2d88190b20ad87001349562 completed March 7, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acb3ce7720819095558536e0a978b8 completed March 7, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.