Triple
T20537534
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | BNSF Northern Transcon |
E504238
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalPredecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Northern Pacific Railway main line |
—
|
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: Northern Pacific Railway main line | Statement: [BNSF Northern Transcon, historicalPredecessor, Northern Pacific Railway main line]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Pacific Railway main line Context triple: [BNSF Northern Transcon, historicalPredecessor, Northern Pacific Railway main line]
-
A.
Northern Pacific
The Northern Pacific is the northern portion of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing vast open waters and numerous island groups and archipelagos across the Northern Hemisphere.
-
B.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway main line is a major transcontinental freight rail corridor in the United States that carries heavy rail traffic across key western routes, including the desert region near Needles, California.
-
C.
Northern Pacific Railway
chosen
The Northern Pacific Railway was a major transcontinental railroad in the northern United States that played a key role in opening and developing the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
D.
BNSF Railway line
The BNSF Railway line is a major freight and passenger rail corridor operated by BNSF Railway that runs through multiple Midwestern and Western states in the United States.
-
E.
BNSF Railway Columbia River Subdivision
BNSF Railway Columbia River Subdivision is a freight and passenger rail line in Washington State that follows the Columbia River as part of BNSF’s Northern Transcon route.
- 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_69e0b4b476648190bc6019622ae54d3c |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6a28f2f1081908f656d790ff182ff |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:02 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:37 a.m.