Triple

T15183247
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Waban station E362800 entity
Predicate formerUse P2417 FINISHED
Object Boston and Albany Railroad station
The Boston and Albany Railroad station was a historic rail facility that once served passengers and freight along the Boston–Albany route in Massachusetts and New York.
E1141216 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: Boston and Albany Railroad station | Statement: [Waban station, formerUse, Boston and Albany Railroad station]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boston and Albany Railroad station
Context triple: [Waban station, formerUse, Boston and Albany Railroad station]
  • A. Fitchburg station
    Fitchburg station is a commuter rail stop in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, serving as a terminus on the MBTA Fitchburg Line connecting the city to the Greater Boston area.
  • B. Lenox station
    Lenox station is an Atlanta rapid transit station on MARTA’s Gold Line serving the Buckhead commercial and shopping district.
  • C. Lowell station
    Lowell station is a passenger rail station in Lowell, Massachusetts that serves as the northern terminus of the MBTA Commuter Rail’s Lowell Line.
  • D. Concord station
    Concord station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) rail station serving the city of Concord in Contra Costa County, California.
  • E. Hawthorne station
    Hawthorne station is a commuter rail stop in Mount Pleasant, New York, serving passengers on the Metro-North Railroad’s Harlem Line.
  • 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: Boston and Albany Railroad station
Triple: [Waban station, formerUse, Boston and Albany Railroad station]
Generated description
The Boston and Albany Railroad station was a historic rail facility that once served passengers and freight along the Boston–Albany route in Massachusetts and New York.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boston and Albany Railroad station
Target entity description: The Boston and Albany Railroad station was a historic rail facility that once served passengers and freight along the Boston–Albany route in Massachusetts and New York.
  • A. Fitchburg station
    Fitchburg station is a commuter rail stop in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, serving as a terminus on the MBTA Fitchburg Line connecting the city to the Greater Boston area.
  • B. Lenox station
    Lenox station is an Atlanta rapid transit station on MARTA’s Gold Line serving the Buckhead commercial and shopping district.
  • C. Lowell station
    Lowell station is a passenger rail station in Lowell, Massachusetts that serves as the northern terminus of the MBTA Commuter Rail’s Lowell Line.
  • D. Concord station
    Concord station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) rail station serving the city of Concord in Contra Costa County, California.
  • E. Hawthorne station
    Hawthorne station is a commuter rail stop in Mount Pleasant, New York, serving passengers on the Metro-North Railroad’s Harlem Line.
  • 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_69d85a09a39c81908759f23268e2d408 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e006663ad48190986b680001be0e9b completed April 15, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fec893f1e08190a192b7b9b80484e8 completed May 9, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fec91a2d708190bcc67793c46b2a61 completed May 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feca0d38088190910dbf4f2538a9d4 completed May 9, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:09 a.m.