Triple

T5502807
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bureau of Corporations E144367 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Report on Transportation by Railroads
"Report on Transportation by Railroads" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing railroad practices, rates, and their economic impact on interstate commerce.
E530599 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: Report on Transportation by Railroads | Statement: [Bureau of Corporations, notableWork, Report on Transportation by Railroads]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Report on Transportation by Railroads
Context triple: [Bureau of Corporations, notableWork, Report on Transportation by Railroads]
  • A. Railroads: Their Origin and Problems
    Railroads: Their Origin and Problems is a historical and analytical study by Charles Francis Adams Jr. examining the development, economic impact, and regulatory challenges of the American railroad system.
  • B. Title I – Return of Railroads to Private Control
    Title I – Return of Railroads to Private Control was a section of the Transportation Act of 1920 that set the terms and procedures for ending federal control of U.S. railroads after World War I and restoring them to private ownership and operation.
  • C. United States federal control of railroads
    United States federal control of railroads was the World War I–era period (1917–1920) when the U.S. government temporarily nationalized and centrally managed the country’s railroads to improve efficiency for wartime transportation needs.
  • D. Reading Railroad
    Reading Railroad was a major 19th- and 20th-century American railroad company based in Pennsylvania, best known for transporting anthracite coal and for its iconic place on the U.S. Monopoly game board.
  • E. The Permanent Way and Coal-Burning Locomotive Boilers of the United States
    "The Permanent Way and Coal-Burning Locomotive Boilers of the United States" is a 19th-century technical treatise on American railway track construction and steam locomotive boiler design.
  • 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: Report on Transportation by Railroads
Triple: [Bureau of Corporations, notableWork, Report on Transportation by Railroads]
Generated description
"Report on Transportation by Railroads" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing railroad practices, rates, and their economic impact on interstate commerce.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Report on Transportation by Railroads
Target entity description: "Report on Transportation by Railroads" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing railroad practices, rates, and their economic impact on interstate commerce.
  • A. Railroads: Their Origin and Problems
    Railroads: Their Origin and Problems is a historical and analytical study by Charles Francis Adams Jr. examining the development, economic impact, and regulatory challenges of the American railroad system.
  • B. Title I – Return of Railroads to Private Control
    Title I – Return of Railroads to Private Control was a section of the Transportation Act of 1920 that set the terms and procedures for ending federal control of U.S. railroads after World War I and restoring them to private ownership and operation.
  • C. United States federal control of railroads
    United States federal control of railroads was the World War I–era period (1917–1920) when the U.S. government temporarily nationalized and centrally managed the country’s railroads to improve efficiency for wartime transportation needs.
  • D. Reading Railroad
    Reading Railroad was a major 19th- and 20th-century American railroad company based in Pennsylvania, best known for transporting anthracite coal and for its iconic place on the U.S. Monopoly game board.
  • E. The Permanent Way and Coal-Burning Locomotive Boilers of the United States
    "The Permanent Way and Coal-Burning Locomotive Boilers of the United States" is a 19th-century technical treatise on American railway track construction and steam locomotive boiler design.
  • 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_69c008f5a2748190bce7a39aabf87a6d completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f0bbea48190bb6fecaee9c0b1d0 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.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:32 p.m.