Triple
T20027680
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Chiswell Dabney Langhorne |
E495030
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Richmond and Danville Railroad |
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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: Richmond and Danville Railroad | Statement: [Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, employer, Richmond and Danville Railroad]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richmond and Danville Railroad Context triple: [Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, employer, Richmond and Danville Railroad]
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A.
Richmond and Danville Railroad
chosen
The Richmond and Danville Railroad was a major 19th-century American railway system centered in Virginia and the southeastern United States that played a significant role in regional commerce and Civil War logistics.
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B.
Virginia Central Railroad
The Virginia Central Railroad was a 19th-century Virginia railway that played a key role in regional transportation and Civil War logistics before becoming a principal predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
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C.
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad
The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was a 19th-century rail line in Virginia that played a key role in connecting Richmond to southern routes and later became part of larger systems like the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
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D.
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was a 19th-century rail line that played a key role in linking eastern Virginia with the interior South and supporting Confederate transportation during the American Civil War.
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E.
Richmond and York River Railroad
The Richmond and York River Railroad was a 19th-century rail line in Virginia that played a strategic role in the American Civil War, particularly in the Peninsula Campaign.
- 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_69da626bfd288190aa5d65098b6433ae |
completed | April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6628f67e081909b9e69dfbe2127ce |
completed | April 20, 2026, 5:29 p.m. |
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:35 p.m.