Triple
T3917278
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Big Four (British railway companies) |
E88871
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Big Four |
E400039
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Big Four | Statement: [Big Four (British railway companies), alsoKnownAs, Big Four]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Four Context triple: [Big Four (British railway companies), alsoKnownAs, Big Four]
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A.
Big Four
chosen
The Big Four were the four largest British railway companies that dominated rail transport in Great Britain between the 1923 Grouping and nationalisation in 1948.
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B.
Secker & Warburg
Secker & Warburg was a notable British publishing house renowned for issuing influential mid-20th-century works of political and literary significance, including George Orwell’s major novels.
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C.
Blackrock
Blackrock is a suburban residential area of Cork city in County Cork, Ireland, known for its riverside location along the River Lee and historic maritime and industrial heritage.
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D.
Allen & Company
Allen & Company is a private investment bank and financial advisory firm known for its work with media, technology, and entertainment companies, as well as its exclusive annual Sun Valley Conference.
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E.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69b5338223548190b8658740c0d879bc |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:22 p.m.