Triple

T3917123
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject LMS 8F E88867 entity
Predicate category P87 FINISHED
Object British Rail steam locomotives
British Rail steam locomotives were the steam-powered engines operated on Britain’s nationalized railway system in the mid-20th century, spanning a wide range of classes used for passenger and freight services before diesel and electric traction took over.
E400055 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: British Rail steam locomotives | Statement: [LMS 8F, category, British Rail steam locomotives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Rail steam locomotives
Context triple: [LMS 8F, category, British Rail steam locomotives]
  • A. BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives
    BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives are mid-20th-century British Railways mixed-traffic steam engines designed for versatility and efficiency on both passenger and freight services.
  • B. LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives
    The LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives are a highly successful and versatile class of British mixed-traffic steam engines designed by William Stanier for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the 1930s.
  • C. British Rail
    British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
  • D. LNER Class V2
    The LNER Class V2 was a class of powerful 2-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for mixed-traffic duties on the London and North Eastern Railway in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Genesis locomotives
    Genesis locomotives are a series of streamlined diesel-electric passenger locomotives built by GE for North American intercity and commuter rail service.
  • 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: British Rail steam locomotives
Triple: [LMS 8F, category, British Rail steam locomotives]
Generated description
British Rail steam locomotives were the steam-powered engines operated on Britain’s nationalized railway system in the mid-20th century, spanning a wide range of classes used for passenger and freight services before diesel and electric traction took over.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Rail steam locomotives
Target entity description: British Rail steam locomotives were the steam-powered engines operated on Britain’s nationalized railway system in the mid-20th century, spanning a wide range of classes used for passenger and freight services before diesel and electric traction took over.
  • A. BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives
    BR Standard Class 4 steam locomotives are mid-20th-century British Railways mixed-traffic steam engines designed for versatility and efficiency on both passenger and freight services.
  • B. LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives
    The LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 "Black Five" locomotives are a highly successful and versatile class of British mixed-traffic steam engines designed by William Stanier for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the 1930s.
  • C. Lion steam locomotive
    The Lion steam locomotive is a preserved early 19th-century British steam engine famed for its role in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and as one of the oldest surviving working locomotives.
  • D. British Rail
    British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
  • E. LNER Class V2
    The LNER Class V2 was a class of powerful 2-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for mixed-traffic duties on the London and North Eastern Railway in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69aed955229881909e85e73ffab1d343 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeed5797508190adaddb84575d9bb3 completed March 9, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b52864e0488190ab348a52cb9168b9 completed March 14, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b52c3423988190aae6514041dc8ab3 completed March 14, 2026, 9:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b52ca9443481909e43a8bbe208c807 completed March 14, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:22 p.m.