Triple

T4878431
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Manchester Locomotive Works E109260 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object American Locomotive Company E19263 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: American Locomotive Company | Statement: [Manchester Locomotive Works, successor, American Locomotive Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: American Locomotive Company
Context triple: [Manchester Locomotive Works, successor, American Locomotive Company]
  • A. American Locomotive Company chosen
    The American Locomotive Company was a major U.S. manufacturer of steam and diesel locomotives and other heavy machinery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Baldwin Locomotive Works
    Baldwin Locomotive Works was a major American manufacturer of steam, diesel, and electric locomotives that played a central role in the development of railroad transportation in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
    Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
  • D. Rogers Locomotive Works
    Rogers Locomotive Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that became part of the American Locomotive Company through consolidation.
  • E. Westinghouse Air Brake Company
    Westinghouse Air Brake Company was an American industrial firm founded by George Westinghouse, best known for pioneering railway air brake technology that greatly improved train safety and efficiency.
  • 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_69bd440e9d64819083e82cf33b4d9570 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6dbd69d48190a8397d67af8f5fc8 completed March 20, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06982c5081908c275019c5d6b1c1 completed March 21, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:27 p.m.