Triple
T20363845
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | South Carolina Railroad |
E496855
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company |
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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: South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company | Statement: [South Carolina Railroad, precededBy, South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company Context triple: [South Carolina Railroad, precededBy, South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company]
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A.
South Carolina Railroad
chosen
The South Carolina Railroad was a pioneering 19th-century American railway that played a key role in early Southern transportation and commerce.
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B.
Charleston and Savannah Railway
The Charleston and Savannah Railway was a historic rail line in the southeastern United States that connected Charleston, South Carolina, with Savannah, Georgia, and later became part of the Plant System of railroads.
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C.
Memphis and Charleston Railroad
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad was a crucial 19th-century rail line linking the Mississippi River at Memphis to the Atlantic seaboard via Charleston, making it strategically vital during the American Civil War.
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D.
Seaboard System Railroad
Seaboard System Railroad was a major U.S. freight railroad of the 1980s that consolidated several southeastern carriers and later became part of CSX Transportation.
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E.
Railway Company of the South
Railway Company of the South is the English name for the historic French railway operator "Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi," which managed rail lines in southwestern France.
- 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_69e0b4a4f9b081908a5a021919c21ccb |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6786fd0088190908187ab642344cc |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:03 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:26 a.m.