Triple

T5219812
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Coast Daylight E117842 entity
Predicate locomotiveClassUsed P31795 FINISHED
Object Southern Pacific GS-3
The Southern Pacific GS-3 was a class of streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built in the late 1930s for high-speed passenger service on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
E504239 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: Southern Pacific GS-3 | Statement: [Coast Daylight, locomotiveClassUsed, Southern Pacific GS-3]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Pacific GS-3
Context triple: [Coast Daylight, locomotiveClassUsed, Southern Pacific GS-3]
  • A. Southern Pacific GS-4
    The Southern Pacific GS-4 is a class of streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotives built in the 1940s for the Southern Pacific Railroad, renowned for their distinctive orange and red "Daylight" livery and high-speed passenger service.
  • B. Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive
    The Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive is a distinctive class of steam engines with the cab placed at the front for crew safety, famously used by the Southern Pacific Railroad to haul trains through long, smoky mountain tunnels and snow sheds in the American West.
  • C. Union Pacific Challenger
    The Union Pacific Challenger was a named passenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, known for providing comfortable, mid-priced long-distance service across the western United States.
  • D. Union Pacific Heritage Fleet
    The Union Pacific Heritage Fleet is a collection of restored historic passenger cars and locomotives maintained by Union Pacific Railroad for special excursions, public relations, and preservation of the company’s railroading legacy.
  • E. Union Pacific No. 119
    Union Pacific No. 119 was the steam locomotive that represented the Union Pacific Railroad at the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony marking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • 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: Southern Pacific GS-3
Triple: [Coast Daylight, locomotiveClassUsed, Southern Pacific GS-3]
Generated description
The Southern Pacific GS-3 was a class of streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built in the late 1930s for high-speed passenger service on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Pacific GS-3
Target entity description: The Southern Pacific GS-3 was a class of streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built in the late 1930s for high-speed passenger service on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
  • A. Southern Pacific GS-4
    The Southern Pacific GS-4 is a class of streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotives built in the 1940s for the Southern Pacific Railroad, renowned for their distinctive orange and red "Daylight" livery and high-speed passenger service.
  • B. Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive
    The Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive is a distinctive class of steam engines with the cab placed at the front for crew safety, famously used by the Southern Pacific Railroad to haul trains through long, smoky mountain tunnels and snow sheds in the American West.
  • C. Union Pacific Challenger
    The Union Pacific Challenger was a named passenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, known for providing comfortable, mid-priced long-distance service across the western United States.
  • D. Union Pacific Heritage Fleet
    The Union Pacific Heritage Fleet is a collection of restored historic passenger cars and locomotives maintained by Union Pacific Railroad for special excursions, public relations, and preservation of the company’s railroading legacy.
  • E. Union Pacific No. 119
    Union Pacific No. 119 was the steam locomotive that represented the Union Pacific Railroad at the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony marking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • 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_69bd4465e03081909bfcfd7113062590 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd847049648190ab24693e92f0dad1 completed March 20, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bef8059c808190aac709a199541ce7 completed March 21, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef86618988190b1c5e53b4a65c8d9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef8c5eed88190a3fded477e72dc65 completed March 21, 2026, 8 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:48 p.m.