Triple

T1516904
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Francis Thompson E32141 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object British railway companies E88871 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: British railway companies | Statement: [Francis Thompson, employer, British railway companies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British railway companies
Context triple: [Francis Thompson, employer, British railway companies]
  • A. Train Operating Companies
    Train Operating Companies are privately operated firms in the UK that run passenger rail services under government-awarded franchises or contracts following the breakup of British Rail.
  • B. British Rail
    British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
  • C. Big Four (British railway companies) chosen
    The Big Four were the four major private railway companies that dominated rail transport in Great Britain between the 1923 Grouping and nationalisation in 1948.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Northern Trains
    Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
  • 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_69a885e8caf88190a5fbb6159ce87786 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a907eb7d108190bf26199744d510d7 completed March 5, 2026, 4:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad2344f8d8819082e1ae5c980d0525 completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.