Triple

T1400261
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian National Railway E30762 entity
Predicate hasPredecessor P97 FINISHED
Object National Transcontinental Railway
The National Transcontinental Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental rail line built in the early 20th century to link eastern and western Canada and later absorbed into the Canadian National Railway system.
E160865 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: National Transcontinental Railway | Statement: [Canadian National Railway, hasPredecessor, National Transcontinental Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Transcontinental Railway
Context triple: [Canadian National Railway, hasPredecessor, National Transcontinental Railway]
  • A. First Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • B. The Standard Railroad of the World
    The Standard Railroad of the World was the proud slogan and nickname of the Pennsylvania Railroad, once one of the largest and most influential railroads in the United States.
  • C. Trans-Siberian Railway
    The Trans-Siberian Railway is a legendary long-distance rail line spanning Russia from Europe to the Pacific, renowned as one of the longest railway routes in the world.
  • D. Central Pacific Railroad
    The Central Pacific Railroad was a major 19th-century American railroad company that built the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, linking California to the eastern United States and transforming transportation and commerce.
  • E. Central Pacific
    Central Pacific refers to the midsection of the Pacific Ocean region, historically significant as a major area of military operations and command during the Pacific theater of World War II.
  • 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: National Transcontinental Railway
Triple: [Canadian National Railway, hasPredecessor, National Transcontinental Railway]
Generated description
The National Transcontinental Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental rail line built in the early 20th century to link eastern and western Canada and later absorbed into the Canadian National Railway system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Transcontinental Railway
Target entity description: The National Transcontinental Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental rail line built in the early 20th century to link eastern and western Canada and later absorbed into the Canadian National Railway system.
  • A. First Transcontinental Railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was the 19th-century rail line that first connected the eastern and western United States by land, revolutionizing cross-country travel, commerce, and settlement.
  • B. The Standard Railroad of the World
    The Standard Railroad of the World was the proud slogan and nickname of the Pennsylvania Railroad, once one of the largest and most influential railroads in the United States.
  • C. Trans-Siberian Railway
    The Trans-Siberian Railway is a legendary long-distance rail line spanning Russia from Europe to the Pacific, renowned as one of the longest railway routes in the world.
  • D. Central Pacific Railroad
    The Central Pacific Railroad was a major 19th-century American railroad company that built the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, linking California to the eastern United States and transforming transportation and commerce.
  • E. Central Pacific
    Central Pacific refers to the midsection of the Pacific Ocean region, historically significant as a major area of military operations and command during the Pacific theater of World War II.
  • 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_69a498fd4e408190bd73eca30ea9754c completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c39c4c148190997150996ca26a99 completed March 1, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acde3799f881908efb4ee73d412482 completed March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acdeef1b3c81908210246be0a8b37d completed March 8, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace0042cd08190a0e1499d4c8e0769 completed March 8, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.