Triple

T21318594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ritzville, Washington E525545 entity
Predicate servedByRailroad P782 FINISHED
Object Northern Pacific Railway (historical) — 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 (historical) | Statement: [Ritzville, Washington, servedByRailroad, Northern Pacific Railway (historical)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Northern Pacific Railway (historical)
Context triple: [Ritzville, Washington, servedByRailroad, Northern Pacific Railway (historical)]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway
    Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway were major transcontinental railroads in the northern United States that played a key role in the region’s economic development and were central to early 20th-century railroad consolidations.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
    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.
  • 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_69e0b51ad810819098c12392c8e55f6c completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e77ece1c348190aaa9c52474b57b2f completed April 21, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:37 p.m.