Triple

T14718392
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norfolk Southern Southern Tier Line E345742 entity
Predicate operator P179 FINISHED
Object Norfolk Southern Railway E11672 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Norfolk Southern Railway | Statement: [Norfolk Southern Southern Tier Line, operator, Norfolk Southern Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Norfolk Southern Railway
Context triple: [Norfolk Southern Southern Tier Line, operator, Norfolk Southern Railway]
  • A. Norfolk Southern Railway chosen
    Norfolk Southern Railway is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
  • B. CSX Transportation
    CSX Transportation is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
  • C. Norfolk and Western Railway
    Norfolk and Western Railway was a major American railroad known for its coal-hauling operations and distinctive steam locomotive fleet, which later became part of Norfolk Southern Railway through merger.
  • D. CSX
    CSX is the IATA airport code for Changsha Huanghua International Airport, the main air gateway serving Changsha in Hunan Province, China.
  • E. Consolidated Rail Corporation
    Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail, was a major U.S. freight railroad created in the 1970s to take over and revitalize the operations of several bankrupt Northeastern railroads.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d822e5911c8190ba589f957dbd9ba7 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb98823408190b4b58a4c4a3fa3a3 completed April 14, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdf0935f088190b54f2e106532972a completed May 8, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:29 a.m.