Triple

T20537535
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject BNSF Northern Transcon E504238 entity
Predicate historicalPredecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway 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: Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway | Statement: [BNSF Northern Transcon, historicalPredecessor, Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway
Context triple: [BNSF Northern Transcon, historicalPredecessor, Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway]
  • A. Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway chosen
    The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was an early 20th-century Pacific Northwest railroad line, backed by railroad magnate James J. Hill, that connected key cities along the Columbia River and facilitated regional trade and transportation.
  • B. Portland & Western Railroad
    Portland & Western Railroad is a regional freight railroad operating in western Oregon, providing rail services across a network of former branch lines.
  • C. Northern Pacific Railway
    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. Northwestern Pacific Railroad
    The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was a historic rail line in Northern California that connected the San Francisco Bay Area to communities throughout Marin, Sonoma, and Humboldt counties, supporting regional passenger and freight transport.
  • E. Union Pacific Northwest Line
    The Union Pacific Northwest Line is a commuter rail route serving Chicago and its northwestern suburbs as part of the Metra rail system.
  • 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.