Triple

T15157177
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Railway Express Agency v. New York E362107 entity
Predicate plaintiff P660 FINISHED
Object Railway Express Agency, Inc.
Railway Express Agency, Inc. was a major American nationwide package delivery and express shipping company that operated primarily via the railroad network in the first half of the 20th century.
E1140388 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: Railway Express Agency, Inc. | Statement: [Railway Express Agency v. New York, plaintiff, Railway Express Agency, Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Railway Express Agency, Inc.
Context triple: [Railway Express Agency v. New York, plaintiff, Railway Express Agency, Inc.]
  • A. National Freight Corporation
    National Freight Corporation was a major British state-owned road haulage and logistics company that played a central role in the UK’s freight transport industry in the mid-20th century.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Federal Passenger Company
    Federal Passenger Company is a major Russian rail operator responsible for long-distance passenger train services across Russia and neighboring countries.
  • D. Transrail Freight
    Transrail Freight was a British rail freight company that emerged from the privatization and restructuring of the former state-owned freight operations.
  • E. Pan Am Railways
    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.
  • 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: Railway Express Agency, Inc.
Triple: [Railway Express Agency v. New York, plaintiff, Railway Express Agency, Inc.]
Generated description
Railway Express Agency, Inc. was a major American nationwide package delivery and express shipping company that operated primarily via the railroad network in the first half of the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Railway Express Agency, Inc.
Target entity description: Railway Express Agency, Inc. was a major American nationwide package delivery and express shipping company that operated primarily via the railroad network in the first half of the 20th century.
  • A. National Freight Corporation
    National Freight Corporation was a major British state-owned road haulage and logistics company that played a central role in the UK’s freight transport industry in the mid-20th century.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Federal Passenger Company
    Federal Passenger Company is a major Russian rail operator responsible for long-distance passenger train services across Russia and neighboring countries.
  • D. Transrail Freight
    Transrail Freight was a British rail freight company that emerged from the privatization and restructuring of the former state-owned freight operations.
  • E. Pan Am Railways
    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.
  • 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_69d85a0759908190b8a051d2e2a1cbe6 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0060c62b08190bcdbd912d011d1ba completed April 15, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69febff87b6c819097f5cc99b2d75fb6 completed May 9, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fec1c2ce5c81909e2df69e4cf80344 completed May 9, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fec25d50548190a056d6bb1297e780 completed May 9, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:08 a.m.