Triple
T21337888
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Millican, Texas |
E526098
|
entity |
| Predicate | servedByRailroad |
P782
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Houston and Texas Central Railway |
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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: Houston and Texas Central Railway | Statement: [Millican, Texas, servedByRailroad, Houston and Texas Central Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houston and Texas Central Railway Context triple: [Millican, Texas, servedByRailroad, Houston and Texas Central Railway]
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A.
Houston and Texas Central Railroad
chosen
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad was a major 19th-century Texas rail line that played a key role in opening up the state’s interior to settlement, commerce, and economic development.
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B.
Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway
Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway was an early 20th-century Texas railroad that operated regional freight and passenger services connecting Houston with other parts of the state.
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C.
Houston Belt and Terminal Railway
The Houston Belt and Terminal Railway was a terminal railroad company in Houston, Texas, that provided switching and terminal services for multiple major railroads serving the city.
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D.
Houston and Great Northern Railroad
The Houston and Great Northern Railroad was a 19th-century Texas railway company that became part of the International–Great Northern Railroad through consolidation.
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E.
Texas and New Orleans Railroad
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad was a major regional rail carrier in Texas and Louisiana that became a key component of the Southern Pacific system in the American Southwest.
- 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_69e0b51c33048190ab27cede74ef798c |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e898da015081909e83fb62cf166b9a |
completed | April 22, 2026, 9:46 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:43 p.m.