Triple
T21657198
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Franchising Director |
E534496
|
entity |
| Predicate | replacedBy |
P101
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Department for Transport rail franchising functions |
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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: Department for Transport rail franchising functions | Statement: [Franchising Director, replacedBy, Department for Transport rail franchising functions]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department for Transport rail franchising functions Context triple: [Franchising Director, replacedBy, Department for Transport rail franchising functions]
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A.
Department for Transport Rail Group
chosen
The Department for Transport Rail Group is the division of the UK Department for Transport responsible for overseeing and managing the country’s rail system and its train operating companies.
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B.
Office of Rail and Road
The Office of Rail and Road is the independent regulator and competition authority for Britain’s railway network and the economic regulator for England’s strategic road network.
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C.
Country Rail Infrastructure Authority
The Country Rail Infrastructure Authority was a New South Wales government agency responsible for managing and maintaining regional rail infrastructure prior to its functions being absorbed into Transport for NSW.
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D.
Office of Passenger Rail Franchising
The Office of Passenger Rail Franchising was a UK government body responsible for awarding and overseeing passenger rail service franchises during the early years of rail privatization.
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E.
Strategic Rail Authority
The Strategic Rail Authority was a UK government body responsible for overseeing and planning the country’s passenger rail services and franchises in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- 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_69e0c467e1f48190af2650b19175abc4 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ef5919c9c88190a2ddcf2cefee79a5 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 12:39 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:36 p.m.