Triple
T19245159
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sandford Fleming |
E481230
|
entity |
| Predicate | workedOn |
P3
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Intercolonial Railway |
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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: Intercolonial Railway | Statement: [Sandford Fleming, workedOn, Intercolonial Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Intercolonial Railway Context triple: [Sandford Fleming, workedOn, Intercolonial Railway]
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A.
Intercolonial Railway of Canada
chosen
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.
National Transcontinental Railway
The National Transcontinental Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental rail line built in the early 20th century to link eastern and western Canada and later absorbed into the Canadian National Railway system.
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C.
Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian railway system that played a key role in linking central Canada with the Atlantic coast and the United States before being absorbed into the Canadian National Railway.
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D.
North–South Railway
The North–South Railway is Vietnam’s principal rail line, running the length of the country and connecting major cities from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City.
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E.
Waterloo to Portsmouth line
The Waterloo to Portsmouth line is a major railway route in southern England connecting London Waterloo with the coastal city of Portsmouth, serving numerous suburban and regional destinations along the way.
- 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_69d8e8cd9d1081908a181d02b88b59b8 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5fb2c34e88190a338e5a7ba906425 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 p.m.