Triple

T5502116
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Railways Act 1993 E144351 entity
Predicate establishedRegulator P50234 FINISHED
Object Rail Regulator
The Rail Regulator was the former independent statutory body in Great Britain responsible for overseeing and enforcing the economic and safety regulation of the railway industry before its functions were transferred to successor regulators.
E530536 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Rail Regulator | Statement: [Railways Act 1993, establishedRegulator, Rail Regulator]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rail Regulator
Context triple: [Railways Act 1993, establishedRegulator, Rail Regulator]
  • A. Railtrack
    Railtrack was the former private owner and operator of most of Britain’s railway infrastructure, which was later replaced by the publicly owned Network Rail after financial and safety controversies.
  • B. The Railway
    The Railway is an 1873 oil painting by Édouard Manet depicting a woman and a young girl by a Paris train station, notable for its modern urban subject and unconventional composition.
  • C. Strategic Rail Authority
    The Strategic Rail Authority was a UK government body responsible for overseeing and planning the country’s passenger rail services and franchises in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
  • D. Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970
    The Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 is the U.S. federal law that created Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) to preserve and manage intercity passenger rail service.
  • E. Rail Safety and Standards Board
    The Rail Safety and Standards Board is a UK-based independent body that develops and maintains safety, operational, and technical standards for the railway industry.
  • 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: Rail Regulator
Triple: [Railways Act 1993, establishedRegulator, Rail Regulator]
Generated description
The Rail Regulator was the former independent statutory body in Great Britain responsible for overseeing and enforcing the economic and safety regulation of the railway industry before its functions were transferred to successor regulators.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rail Regulator
Target entity description: The Rail Regulator was the former independent statutory body in Great Britain responsible for overseeing and enforcing the economic and safety regulation of the railway industry before its functions were transferred to successor regulators.
  • A. Railtrack
    Railtrack was the former private owner and operator of most of Britain’s railway infrastructure, which was later replaced by the publicly owned Network Rail after financial and safety controversies.
  • B. The Railway
    The Railway is an 1873 oil painting by Édouard Manet depicting a woman and a young girl by a Paris train station, notable for its modern urban subject and unconventional composition.
  • C. Strategic Rail Authority
    The Strategic Rail Authority was a UK government body responsible for overseeing and planning the country’s passenger rail services and franchises in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
  • D. Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970
    The Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 is the U.S. federal law that created Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) to preserve and manage intercity passenger rail service.
  • E. Rail Safety and Standards Board
    The Rail Safety and Standards Board is a UK-based independent body that develops and maintains safety, operational, and technical standards for the railway industry.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: establishedRegulator
Context triple: [Railways Act 1993, establishedRegulator, Rail Regulator]
  • A. regulatorEstablished chosen
    Indicates that an entity has formally created, instituted, or set up a regulatory body or authority.
  • B. formerlyRegulatedBy
    Indicates that an entity was previously subject to the authority or control of a particular regulator, but is no longer regulated by that entity.
  • C. regulatedIn
    Indicates that one entity’s activity, expression, or occurrence is controlled, influenced, or modulated by another entity within a specific context or system.
  • D. regulatingAgency
    Indicates that one entity serves as the official authority responsible for overseeing, controlling, or enforcing rules and standards on another entity or activity.
  • E. regulatesOrIsRegulatedBy
    Indicates a bidirectional regulatory relationship in which one entity controls, influences, or modulates another, or is itself controlled, influenced, or modulated by that other entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c008f5a2748190bce7a39aabf87a6d completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f0a512c81908f077378917e5879 completed March 22, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027a67d648190ac8d097202c8ec3d completed March 22, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c037b4e04881908d07e704f2a161bb completed March 22, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0384d023081909cb0d4ba4b80c07e completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c01b052f3c81909f71c6add0f35a6f completed March 22, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:32 p.m.