Triple

T13208601
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South Manchuria Railway track E314428 entity
Predicate connectedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Chinese Eastern Railway
The Chinese Eastern Railway was a strategically important railway built by Imperial Russia across northeastern China, serving as a key link of the Trans-Siberian Railway and a focal point of regional geopolitical competition.
E1028728 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: Chinese Eastern Railway | Statement: [South Manchuria Railway track, connectedTo, Chinese Eastern Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinese Eastern Railway
Context triple: [South Manchuria Railway track, connectedTo, Chinese Eastern Railway]
  • A. Trans-Manchurian Railway
    The Trans-Manchurian Railway is a major rail route linking Russia and China by running from the Trans-Siberian line through Manchuria to connect cities such as Chita and Harbin with Beijing.
  • B. South Manchuria Railway track
    The South Manchuria Railway track was a strategically vital Japanese-controlled rail line in northeastern China that became infamous as the staged site of the 1931 Mukden Incident, which Japan used as a pretext to invade Manchuria.
  • C. Trans-Mongolian Railway
    The Trans-Mongolian Railway is a major international rail line linking Russia, Mongolia, and China, running from Ulan-Ude through Ulaanbaatar to Beijing as a key route for both passenger travel and freight.
  • D. Baikal–Amur Mainline
    The Baikal–Amur Mainline is a major Soviet-era railway line in Russia that runs parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway, traversing remote regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
  • E. East Siberian Railway
    The East Siberian Railway is a major regional division of the Russian Railways network that operates key rail lines across Eastern Siberia, supporting both long-distance passenger travel and heavy freight transport.
  • 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: Chinese Eastern Railway
Triple: [South Manchuria Railway track, connectedTo, Chinese Eastern Railway]
Generated description
The Chinese Eastern Railway was a strategically important railway built by Imperial Russia across northeastern China, serving as a key link of the Trans-Siberian Railway and a focal point of regional geopolitical competition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinese Eastern Railway
Target entity description: The Chinese Eastern Railway was a strategically important railway built by Imperial Russia across northeastern China, serving as a key link of the Trans-Siberian Railway and a focal point of regional geopolitical competition.
  • A. Trans-Manchurian Railway
    The Trans-Manchurian Railway is a major rail route linking Russia and China by running from the Trans-Siberian line through Manchuria to connect cities such as Chita and Harbin with Beijing.
  • B. South Manchuria Railway track
    The South Manchuria Railway track was a strategically vital Japanese-controlled rail line in northeastern China that became infamous as the staged site of the 1931 Mukden Incident, which Japan used as a pretext to invade Manchuria.
  • C. Trans-Mongolian Railway
    The Trans-Mongolian Railway is a major international rail line linking Russia, Mongolia, and China, running from Ulan-Ude through Ulaanbaatar to Beijing as a key route for both passenger travel and freight.
  • D. Baikal–Amur Mainline
    The Baikal–Amur Mainline is a major Soviet-era railway line in Russia that runs parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway, traversing remote regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
  • E. East Siberian Railway
    The East Siberian Railway is a major regional division of the Russian Railways network that operates key rail lines across Eastern Siberia, supporting both long-distance passenger travel and heavy freight transport.
  • 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_69d806aee7308190b70a237ba2a6e3e1 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c9cb7ac819095cff8699993c419 completed April 10, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff1c9f348190aae39073bdcee84d completed May 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7013a368c8190a768f837f6551f5b completed May 3, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7038563848190ae96538e30ecafd5 completed May 3, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:17 p.m.