Triple
T21904366
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lake Michigan rail car ferries |
E540895
|
entity |
| Predicate | usedBy |
P260
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Grand Trunk Western Railroad |
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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: Grand Trunk Western Railroad | Statement: [Lake Michigan rail car ferries, usedBy, Grand Trunk Western Railroad]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grand Trunk Western Railroad Context triple: [Lake Michigan rail car ferries, usedBy, Grand Trunk Western Railroad]
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A.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
chosen
Grand Trunk Western Railroad was a major U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway that operated freight and passenger rail services primarily across Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois.
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B.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was an early 20th-century Canadian transcontinental railway that played a key role in opening Western Canada to settlement and trade before its assets were absorbed into the national rail system.
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C.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad line
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad line was a major regional rail route in the Midwestern United States, historically operated by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad as part of its freight and passenger network.
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D.
Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian railway system that played a key role in linking central Canada with the Atlantic coast and the United States before being absorbed into the Canadian National Railway.
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E.
Kansas Pacific Railway
The Kansas Pacific Railway was a 19th-century American railroad that formed part of the first transcontinental rail network, linking Kansas to the western frontier and facilitating regional settlement and commerce.
- 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_69e0c47b4e8c81908c8076eaa4c8e4f2 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f121d4c0248190909172decd7cbc64 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:29 p.m.