Triple
T21804582
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | InterCity sector of British Rail |
E538316
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Great Western franchise |
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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: Great Western franchise | Statement: [InterCity sector of British Rail, successor, Great Western franchise]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Western franchise Context triple: [InterCity sector of British Rail, successor, Great Western franchise]
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A.
Great Western franchise
chosen
The Great Western franchise is a major UK passenger rail franchise covering long-distance, regional, and commuter services across western England and South Wales, including routes from London Paddington.
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B.
Southwestern Limited
Southwestern Limited was a named passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad that provided long-distance service to the southwestern regions of its network.
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C.
West Coast Railways
West Coast Railways is a British charter train operator best known for running heritage and steam-hauled services, including the famous Jacobite route in Scotland.
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D.
West Coast freight network
The West Coast freight network is a major system of rail, highway, and port infrastructure that moves goods along the western United States, linking key agricultural, industrial, and urban centers to domestic and international markets.
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E.
Big Four of the Central Pacific
The Big Four of the Central Pacific were a group of influential 19th-century railroad magnates—Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker—who financed and built the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.
- 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_69e0c4733f4081909a86622e7e6d15d2 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f07801fa8081909098d00947bf8f7f |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.