Triple

T17804068
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Station (Houston) E444507 entity
Predicate servedRailroad P782 FINISHED
Object Burlington-Rock Island Railroad NE NERFINISHED

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: Burlington-Rock Island Railroad | Statement: [Union Station (Houston), servedRailroad, Burlington-Rock Island Railroad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burlington-Rock Island Railroad
Context triple: [Union Station (Houston), servedRailroad, Burlington-Rock Island Railroad]
  • A. Iowa Interstate Railroad
    Iowa Interstate Railroad is a regional freight railroad operating across parts of Iowa and neighboring Midwestern states, connecting local industries to the national rail network.
  • B. Illinois Central Railroad
    The Illinois Central Railroad was a major American rail carrier that played a pivotal role in connecting the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico and fostering economic development along its north–south route.
  • C. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
    The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was a major Midwestern U.S. railroad that operated extensive passenger and freight services, notably connecting Chicago with cities across the Great Plains and Southwest, until its final liquidation in the 1980s.
  • D. Chicago and Alton Railroad
    The Chicago and Alton Railroad was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Midwestern U.S. railroad that connected Chicago with central and southern Illinois and Missouri, playing a key role in regional passenger and freight transport.
  • E. New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
    The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, commonly known as the Nickel Plate Road, was a prominent Midwestern and Great Lakes region railroad in the United States that operated major freight and passenger services between key industrial cities.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burlington-Rock Island Railroad
Target entity description: The Burlington-Rock Island Railroad was a mid-20th-century joint railway operation between the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad that provided passenger and freight service in Texas and the southwestern United States.
  • A. Iowa Interstate Railroad
    Iowa Interstate Railroad is a regional freight railroad operating across parts of Iowa and neighboring Midwestern states, connecting local industries to the national rail network.
  • B. Illinois Central Railroad
    The Illinois Central Railroad was a major American rail carrier that played a pivotal role in connecting the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico and fostering economic development along its north–south route.
  • C. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad chosen
    The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was a major Midwestern U.S. railroad that operated extensive passenger and freight services, notably connecting Chicago with cities across the Great Plains and Southwest, until its final liquidation in the 1980s.
  • D. Chicago and Alton Railroad
    The Chicago and Alton Railroad was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Midwestern U.S. railroad that connected Chicago with central and southern Illinois and Missouri, playing a key role in regional passenger and freight transport.
  • E. New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
    The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, commonly known as the Nickel Plate Road, was a prominent Midwestern and Great Lakes region railroad in the United States that operated major freight and passenger services between key industrial cities.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (2 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_69d8b9efe370819095cd219b143ae727 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e48802bcfc8190a138164d11081ab8 completed April 19, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:14 a.m.