Triple
T18665386
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Vincent Coleman |
E456310
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Canadian Government Railways |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Canadian Government Railways | Statement: [Vincent Coleman, employer, Canadian Government Railways]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canadian Government Railways Context triple: [Vincent Coleman, employer, Canadian Government Railways]
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A.
Intercolonial Railway of Canada
The Intercolonial Railway of Canada was a government-owned railway that linked the Maritime provinces with central Canada and played a key role in the country’s early national transportation network.
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B.
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway is a historic Canadian transcontinental railway company that played a central role in the country’s development and later expanded into a major transportation and hospitality conglomerate.
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C.
Canadian National Railway
chosen
Canadian National Railway is a major Canadian freight railway company that operates an extensive rail network across Canada and into the United States.
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D.
Canadian Northern Railway
The Canadian Northern Railway was an early 20th-century Canadian transcontinental railway whose network later became a core component of the Canadian National Railway system.
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E.
Toronto Railway Company
The Toronto Railway Company was a private streetcar operator that ran Toronto’s electric tram system in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before public transit was municipalized.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8d38f72b4819090a935175d9ca8af |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5508e02788190bdea6099f08db4f0 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:48 a.m.