Triple
T14760931
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Altavista, Virginia |
E346857
|
entity |
| Predicate | railroadServedBy |
P782
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Southern Railway |
E84776
|
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: Southern Railway | Statement: [Altavista, Virginia, railroadServedBy, Southern Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Railway Context triple: [Altavista, Virginia, railroadServedBy, Southern Railway]
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A.
Southern Railway
Southern Railway is one of the zones of Indian Railways, administering and operating rail services across much of South India, including Tamil Nadu and parts of neighboring states.
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B.
Southern Railway (U.S.)
chosen
Southern Railway (U.S.) was a major American Class I railroad that operated primarily in the southeastern United States before becoming a key predecessor of Norfolk Southern Railway.
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C.
Southern Railway (UK)
Southern Railway (UK) was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated routes in southern England, including busy commuter and coastal lines, until nationalisation in 1948.
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D.
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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E.
Railway Company of the South
Railway Company of the South is the English name for the historic French railway operator "Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi," which managed rail lines in southwestern France.
- 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_69d822e8896c819091169882f9b20486 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dec7f207dc819088a53f717736a121 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 11:04 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe0cf24c0081909221cb7d761e882f |
completed | May 8, 2026, 4:18 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 a.m.