Triple

T20940734
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dunsmuir, California E515712 entity
Predicate historicallyServedBy P19592 FINISHED
Object Southern Pacific Railroad — NE NERFINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Southern Pacific Railroad | Statement: [Dunsmuir, California, historicallyServedBy, Southern Pacific Railroad]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Southern Pacific Railroad
Context triple: [Dunsmuir, California, historicallyServedBy, Southern Pacific Railroad]
  • A. Southern Pacific Railroad chosen
    Southern Pacific Railroad was a major American railroad company that operated extensive rail networks across the western and southwestern United States from the 19th to the late 20th century.
  • B. Union Pacific Railroad
    Union Pacific Railroad is one of the largest freight rail networks in the United States, operating an extensive system that spans the western two-thirds of the country.
  • 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. Missouri Pacific Railroad
    Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
  • E. San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
    The San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad was a 19th-century regional railroad in Northern California that later became a key predecessor of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69e0b4fc13408190b06868df03c5c29b elicitation completed
NER batch_69e6f955f0148190ae42278ad5c0f363 ner completed
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:50 p.m.