Triple

T5001643
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hindley railway station E112385 entity
Predicate fareZone P844 FINISHED
Object Greater Manchester rail zone
The Greater Manchester rail zone is a zonal fare system used across the Greater Manchester public transport network to determine ticket prices and travel validity on trains and other services.
E449364 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: Greater Manchester rail zone | Statement: [Hindley railway station, fareZone, Greater Manchester rail zone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Greater Manchester rail zone
Context triple: [Hindley railway station, fareZone, Greater Manchester rail zone]
  • A. Greater Manchester rail network
    The Greater Manchester rail network is a coordinated system of suburban and regional train services that connects Manchester with its surrounding towns and cities across the metropolitan county.
  • B. Greater Manchester zone 2
    Greater Manchester zone 2 is a public transport fare zone within the Greater Manchester area used to set ticket prices for local rail and other transit services.
  • C. Manchester to Bolton line
    The Manchester to Bolton line is a suburban railway route in Greater Manchester, England, connecting Manchester with the town of Bolton and serving intermediate communities along the corridor.
  • D. Greater Manchester
    Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England that encompasses the city of Manchester and surrounding towns, forming one of the UK’s largest urban and economic regions.
  • E. Greater Manchester Zone 4
    Greater Manchester Zone 4 is an outer fare zone in the Greater Manchester public transport network that includes locations such as Manchester Airport railway station.
  • 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: Greater Manchester rail zone
Triple: [Hindley railway station, fareZone, Greater Manchester rail zone]
Generated description
The Greater Manchester rail zone is a zonal fare system used across the Greater Manchester public transport network to determine ticket prices and travel validity on trains and other services.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Greater Manchester rail zone
Target entity description: The Greater Manchester rail zone is a zonal fare system used across the Greater Manchester public transport network to determine ticket prices and travel validity on trains and other services.
  • A. Greater Manchester rail network
    The Greater Manchester rail network is a coordinated system of suburban and regional train services that connects Manchester with its surrounding towns and cities across the metropolitan county.
  • B. Greater Manchester zone 2 chosen
    Greater Manchester zone 2 is a public transport fare zone within the Greater Manchester area used to set ticket prices for local rail and other transit services.
  • C. Manchester to Bolton line
    The Manchester to Bolton line is a suburban railway route in Greater Manchester, England, connecting Manchester with the town of Bolton and serving intermediate communities along the corridor.
  • D. Greater Manchester
    Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England that encompasses the city of Manchester and surrounding towns, forming one of the UK’s largest urban and economic regions.
  • E. Greater Manchester Zone 4
    Greater Manchester Zone 4 is an outer fare zone in the Greater Manchester public transport network that includes locations such as Manchester Airport railway station.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd4433d0b08190877e83959ef40d81 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd72bf0de08190a07419514afc3a06 completed March 20, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be92598ff88190b63a589524180272 completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9323c5fc819084a4dbf59bab24cd completed March 21, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be93bafdbc8190b7add3fbcc33a317 completed March 21, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:34 p.m.