Triple
T20772260
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Rail Mark 3 coaching stock |
E511264
|
entity |
| Predicate | usedBy |
P260
|
FINISHED |
| Object | InterCity sector of British Rail |
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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: InterCity sector of British Rail | Statement: [British Rail Mark 3 coaching stock, usedBy, InterCity sector of British Rail]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: InterCity sector of British Rail Context triple: [British Rail Mark 3 coaching stock, usedBy, InterCity sector of British Rail]
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A.
InterCity sector of British Rail
chosen
The InterCity sector of British Rail was the business unit responsible for operating long-distance express passenger services across the British railway network from the 1960s until privatisation in the 1990s.
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B.
British Rail Provincial sector
The British Rail Provincial sector was the division of British Rail responsible for operating most non-intercity and rural passenger train services across the United Kingdom before sectorisation reforms led to its rebranding as Regional Railways.
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C.
London & South East sector of British Rail
London & South East sector of British Rail was the former British Rail business sector responsible for commuter and regional passenger services in and around London and the South East of England before the creation of Network SouthEast.
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D.
British Rail
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
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E.
British Rail sectorisation era
The British Rail sectorisation era was a period in the 1980s and early 1990s when the UK’s state-owned railway was reorganised into semi-autonomous business sectors, paving the way for later privatisation.
- 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_69e0b4ca01148190ac018e57e0cab46f |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c2681ff88190bfe5938c2db6b2c4 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:18 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:37 p.m.