Triple
T13328896
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Portland Terminal Company |
E317514
|
entity |
| Predicate | successorInCorporateLineage |
P69351
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pan Am Railways |
E81017
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Pan Am Railways | Statement: [Portland Terminal Company, successorInCorporateLineage, Pan Am Railways]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pan Am Railways Context triple: [Portland Terminal Company, successorInCorporateLineage, Pan Am Railways]
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A.
Pan Am Railways
chosen
Pan Am Railways was a regional freight railroad in New England, formerly known as Guilford Rail System, that operated an extensive network across the northeastern United States.
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B.
Conrail
Conrail was a major U.S. freight railroad formed in the 1970s to take over and revitalize the operations of several bankrupt Northeastern railroads.
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C.
Canada Southern Railway
Canada Southern Railway was a 19th- and early 20th-century railway company that operated a key east–west main line across southern Ontario, providing an important international link between the U.S. and Canada.
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D.
Georgia Pacific Railway
Georgia Pacific Railway was a 19th-century American railroad company in the southeastern United States that later became part of the Southern Railway system.
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E.
Transrail Freight
Transrail Freight was a British rail freight company that emerged from the privatization and restructuring of the former state-owned freight operations.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: successorInCorporateLineage Context triple: [Portland Terminal Company, successorInCorporateLineage, Pan Am Railways]
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A.
successorInLineage
Indicates that one entity is the next direct descendant or inheritor in a genealogical or hierarchical lineage from another entity.
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B.
hasCorporateSuccessor
chosen
Indicates that one corporate entity is the legal successor to another, inheriting its rights, obligations, or continuity of business.
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C.
successorLine
Indicates that one line directly follows another in a sequence or ordered arrangement.
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D.
successorRelationship
Indicates a relationship where one entity directly follows or replaces another in a sequence, order, or role.
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E.
successionRelation
Indicates that one entity follows another in an ordered sequence, such as in time, position, or rank.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69d806b4d62c81908d4ced1665414be5 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d99cfdc9388190af1fdd3cd4717bd8 |
completed | April 11, 2026, 12:59 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f7546fbd1881909d2dda1edb63df2f |
completed | May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69d98f6babd88190a5d529df9584b9a4 |
completed | April 11, 2026, 12:01 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:30 p.m.