Triple
T16162691
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Bouch |
E392215
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Edinburgh and Northern Railway |
E473008
|
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: Edinburgh and Northern Railway | Statement: [Thomas Bouch, employer, Edinburgh and Northern Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edinburgh and Northern Railway Context triple: [Thomas Bouch, employer, Edinburgh and Northern Railway]
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A.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway
chosen
The Edinburgh and Northern Railway was a 19th-century Scottish railway company that developed key routes in eastern and northern Scotland before being absorbed into larger railway systems.
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B.
Scottish Central Railway
The Scottish Central Railway was a 19th-century Scottish railway company that operated key routes linking central Scotland’s major cities before becoming part of larger railway groupings.
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C.
Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company that operated extensive routes across Scotland and into England during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was a 19th-century Scottish railway company that built and operated one of the first mainline routes linking the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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E.
North British Railway
North British Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish railway company that operated extensive routes across central and eastern Scotland before becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
- 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_69d87f1d32208190942e4e499a80c18c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e21e5ffba88190b9dc7bb9afb6fdf2 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 11:49 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fff7b69adc8190ba90d68acaaca509 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:02 a.m.