Triple

T19243218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National City Lines E481181 entity
Predicate acquired P2511 FINISHED
Object Minneapolis Street Railway Company (bus operations) 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: Minneapolis Street Railway Company (bus operations) | Statement: [National City Lines, acquired, Minneapolis Street Railway Company (bus operations)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minneapolis Street Railway Company (bus operations)
Context triple: [National City Lines, acquired, Minneapolis Street Railway Company (bus operations)]
  • A. Montgomery City Lines
    Montgomery City Lines was the private bus company that operated the segregated public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama during the civil rights era, including the bus on which Rosa Parks made her historic protest.
  • B. Chicago Rapid Transit Company
    The Chicago Rapid Transit Company was the private operator of Chicago’s elevated “L” rail system in the early 20th century before public transit was consolidated under the Chicago Transit Authority.
  • C. Pullman Transit
    Pullman Transit is the public bus system serving the city of Pullman, Washington, providing local transportation for residents, students, and visitors.
  • D. Baltimore Transit Company
    The Baltimore Transit Company was a private operator that ran streetcar and bus services in Baltimore, Maryland, before public transit was taken over by the state-run Maryland Transit Administration.
  • E. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway
    The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway was a regional railroad in the Midwestern United States that primarily served agricultural areas by connecting smaller communities to major rail hubs.
  • 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: Minneapolis Street Railway Company (bus operations)
Target entity description: The Minneapolis Street Railway Company (bus operations) was the bus transit division serving Minneapolis, Minnesota, which later became part of the National City Lines–controlled urban transportation network.
  • A. Montgomery City Lines
    Montgomery City Lines was the private bus company that operated the segregated public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama during the civil rights era, including the bus on which Rosa Parks made her historic protest.
  • B. Chicago Rapid Transit Company
    The Chicago Rapid Transit Company was the private operator of Chicago’s elevated “L” rail system in the early 20th century before public transit was consolidated under the Chicago Transit Authority.
  • C. Pullman Transit
    Pullman Transit is the public bus system serving the city of Pullman, Washington, providing local transportation for residents, students, and visitors.
  • D. Baltimore Transit Company
    The Baltimore Transit Company was a private operator that ran streetcar and bus services in Baltimore, Maryland, before public transit was taken over by the state-run Maryland Transit Administration.
  • E. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway
    The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway was a regional railroad in the Midwestern United States that primarily served agricultural areas by connecting smaller communities to major rail hubs.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69d8e8cd9d1081908a181d02b88b59b8 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5faf3018881909ef866616c45ff2e completed April 20, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 p.m.