Triple

T16470898
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Rail steam locomotives E400055 entity
Predicate includes P1393 FINISHED
Object BR Standard Class steam locomotives
BR Standard Class steam locomotives were a series of steam engines designed and built in the 1950s for British Railways to standardize and modernize its steam fleet in the final years before diesel and electric traction took over.
E1215498 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: BR Standard Class steam locomotives | Statement: [British Rail steam locomotives, includes, BR Standard Class steam locomotives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BR Standard Class steam locomotives
Context triple: [British Rail steam locomotives, includes, BR Standard Class steam locomotives]
  • A. BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives
    BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives are mid-20th-century British Railways mixed-traffic steam engines designed for versatility and efficiency on both passenger and freight services.
  • B. LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives
    The LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives are a highly successful and versatile class of British mixed-traffic steam engines designed by William Stanier for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the 1930s.
  • C. LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 steam locomotives
    The LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 steam locomotives were a class of light mixed-traffic engines designed in the 1940s for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and later British Railways, intended for branch line and secondary duties.
  • D. B Class steam locomotives
    The B Class steam locomotives are small, narrow-gauge tank engines historically used on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, renowned for hauling trains through the steep, winding mountain route in the Indian Himalayas.
  • E. BR Standard Class 5
    The BR Standard Class 5 was a versatile British steam locomotive class introduced in the 1950s for mixed-traffic duties across the nationalised railway network.
  • 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: BR Standard Class steam locomotives
Triple: [British Rail steam locomotives, includes, BR Standard Class steam locomotives]
Generated description
BR Standard Class steam locomotives were a series of steam engines designed and built in the 1950s for British Railways to standardize and modernize its steam fleet in the final years before diesel and electric traction took over.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BR Standard Class steam locomotives
Target entity description: BR Standard Class steam locomotives were a series of steam engines designed and built in the 1950s for British Railways to standardize and modernize its steam fleet in the final years before diesel and electric traction took over.
  • A. BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives
    BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives are mid-20th-century British Railways mixed-traffic steam engines designed for versatility and efficiency on both passenger and freight services.
  • B. LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives
    The LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives are a highly successful and versatile class of British mixed-traffic steam engines designed by William Stanier for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the 1930s.
  • C. LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 steam locomotives
    The LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 steam locomotives were a class of light mixed-traffic engines designed in the 1940s for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and later British Railways, intended for branch line and secondary duties.
  • D. B Class steam locomotives
    The B Class steam locomotives are small, narrow-gauge tank engines historically used on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, renowned for hauling trains through the steep, winding mountain route in the Indian Himalayas.
  • E. BR Standard Class 5
    The BR Standard Class 5 was a versatile British steam locomotive class introduced in the 1950s for mixed-traffic duties across the nationalised railway network.
  • 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_69d87f2dac988190b74d6e185fa88ba4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32dd0d2fc81909b68b5afb00f192f completed April 18, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004f5af4308190bd023624de35027f completed May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0050c5d4548190a674c1c19f08a9fd completed May 10, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0051a7ae208190b33d42cc8d4bb21f completed May 10, 2026, 9:36 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:11 a.m.