Triple
T16484701
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | BNSF Southern Transcon |
E400407
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessorOwner |
P23579
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
E132368
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | Statement: [BNSF Southern Transcon, predecessorOwner, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Context triple: [BNSF Southern Transcon, predecessorOwner, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]
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A.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
chosen
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was a major American railroad that became one of the largest and most influential rail systems in the United States, central to the development of the Southwest.
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B.
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
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C.
Texas and Pacific Railway
The Texas and Pacific Railway was a major 19th- and 20th-century American railroad that operated across Texas and into the southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional transportation and economic development.
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D.
Kansas Pacific Railway
The Kansas Pacific Railway was a 19th-century American railroad that formed part of the first transcontinental rail network, linking Kansas to the western frontier and facilitating regional settlement and commerce.
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E.
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, commonly known as the Frisco, was a major American railroad that operated in the central and south-central United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: predecessorOwner Context triple: [BNSF Southern Transcon, predecessorOwner, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]
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A.
predecessorInfrastructureOwner
chosen
Indicates that one infrastructure owner previously held ownership or responsibility before another in a temporal succession.
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B.
predecessorUser
Indicates that one user previously held a role, position, or state that is now held by another user, making the first user the predecessor of the second.
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C.
predecessorName
Indicates that the value is the name of an entity that directly precedes another in an ordered sequence or lineage.
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D.
ownedByPredecessor
Indicates that something is or was owned by an entity that previously held a given role, position, or status before the current one.
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E.
predecessor
Indicates that one entity comes before another in an ordered sequence or succession.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69d883813098819084f5409539723b59 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e32e05bf448190947b9da15fd29d0a |
completed | April 18, 2026, 7:08 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a006ed4a7008190ab1ad5cbf80dc119 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69e22706b0588190a48a951c5211a617 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 12:26 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.