Triple

T5182899
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Skimbleshanks E116961 entity
Predicate describedAs P22 FINISHED
Object The Railway Cat
The Railway Cat is the nickname of Skimbleshanks, a diligent and orderly railway-working cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
E500701 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: The Railway Cat | Statement: [Skimbleshanks, describedAs, The Railway Cat]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Railway Cat
Context triple: [Skimbleshanks, describedAs, The Railway Cat]
  • A. The Cat About Town
    The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
  • B. The Cat's-Paw
    The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
  • C. The Good Luck Cat
    The Good Luck Cat is a children's picture book by poet Joy Harjo that tells the story of a beloved cat whose many brushes with danger explore themes of luck, love, and Native American family life.
  • D. The Cat That Walked by Himself
    The Cat That Walked by Himself is a Rudyard Kipling short story from his "Just So Stories" collection that whimsically explains how the once-wild cat came to live with humans while preserving his independence.
  • E. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
    The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a 1985 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that blends adventure, metafiction, and his interconnected "Future History" universe through the story of a writer drawn into a complex space-time conspiracy.
  • 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: The Railway Cat
Triple: [Skimbleshanks, describedAs, The Railway Cat]
Generated description
The Railway Cat is the nickname of Skimbleshanks, a diligent and orderly railway-working cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Railway Cat
Target entity description: The Railway Cat is the nickname of Skimbleshanks, a diligent and orderly railway-working cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
  • A. The Cat About Town
    The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
  • B. The Cat's-Paw
    The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
  • C. The Good Luck Cat
    The Good Luck Cat is a children's picture book by poet Joy Harjo that tells the story of a beloved cat whose many brushes with danger explore themes of luck, love, and Native American family life.
  • D. The Cat That Walked by Himself
    The Cat That Walked by Himself is a Rudyard Kipling short story from his "Just So Stories" collection that whimsically explains how the once-wild cat came to live with humans while preserving his independence.
  • E. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
    The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a 1985 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that blends adventure, metafiction, and his interconnected "Future History" universe through the story of a writer drawn into a complex space-time conspiracy.
  • 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_69bd446140f08190becb93c61158f27f completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd799d50388190bf2b7dfdd90949e9 completed March 20, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bee0815d848190bacd5ec6a778d91e completed March 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bee58e4c748190bc216bd68c70e863 completed March 21, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bee631b5e081908da0d0ffed1ff6b3 completed March 21, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.