Triple
T3773216
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Norfolk and Western Railway |
E83243
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableFacility |
P105
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Roanoke Shops
Roanoke Shops is a historic railroad maintenance and locomotive-building complex in Roanoke, Virginia, long associated with the Norfolk and Western Railway’s steam and diesel operations.
|
E387185
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 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: Roanoke Shops | Statement: [Norfolk and Western Railway, notableFacility, Roanoke Shops]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roanoke Shops Context triple: [Norfolk and Western Railway, notableFacility, Roanoke Shops]
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A.
Tredegar Iron Works
Tredegar Iron Works is a historic 19th-century ironworks complex in Richmond, Virginia, best known as a major supplier of iron and munitions to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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B.
Potomac Mills
Potomac Mills is a large outlet and value retail shopping mall located in Woodbridge, Virginia, known for its wide variety of brand-name stores and dining options.
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C.
Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
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D.
Gleason Works
Gleason Works is an American manufacturing company best known for its pioneering machine tools and technologies for producing gears and related power transmission components.
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E.
Inverness Works
Inverness Works was a principal railway engineering and maintenance facility associated with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in Inverness, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Roanoke Shops Triple: [Norfolk and Western Railway, notableFacility, Roanoke Shops]
Generated description
Roanoke Shops is a historic railroad maintenance and locomotive-building complex in Roanoke, Virginia, long associated with the Norfolk and Western Railway’s steam and diesel operations.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roanoke Shops Target entity description: Roanoke Shops is a historic railroad maintenance and locomotive-building complex in Roanoke, Virginia, long associated with the Norfolk and Western Railway’s steam and diesel operations.
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A.
Tredegar Iron Works
Tredegar Iron Works is a historic 19th-century ironworks complex in Richmond, Virginia, best known as a major supplier of iron and munitions to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
-
B.
Potomac Mills
Potomac Mills is a large outlet and value retail shopping mall located in Woodbridge, Virginia, known for its wide variety of brand-name stores and dining options.
-
C.
Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
-
D.
Gleason Works
Gleason Works is an American manufacturing company best known for its pioneering machine tools and technologies for producing gears and related power transmission components.
-
E.
Inverness Works
Inverness Works was a principal railway engineering and maintenance facility associated with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in Inverness, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 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_69ad8b235e608190b5a2b1d1bfcef50b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adcc57c9e48190a0f254e47348bf32 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b4e52ebd988190b6e3a7d8069b74be |
completed | March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b4e64663b881908469456b15bc2687 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 4:38 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b4ea0de7708190abe4be1c8af3cd71 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 4:54 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:36 p.m.