Triple

T5634358
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Virginia and Truckee Railroad E147909 entity
Predicate servedCity P3936 FINISHED
Object Virginia City, Nevada E139914 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Virginia City, Nevada | Statement: [Virginia and Truckee Railroad, servedCity, Virginia City, Nevada]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia City, Nevada
Context triple: [Virginia and Truckee Railroad, servedCity, Virginia City, Nevada]
  • A. Winchester, Nevada
    Winchester, Nevada is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County that forms part of the urbanized area commonly associated with the Las Vegas Strip.
  • B. Boulder City, Nevada
    Boulder City, Nevada is a planned community in southern Nevada best known for housing workers during the construction of Hoover Dam and for being one of the few U.S. cities where gambling is prohibited.
  • C. Eureka, Nevada
    Eureka, Nevada is a small historic mining town in central Nevada known for its well-preserved 19th-century architecture and remote location along U.S. Route 50.
  • D. Virginia City chosen
    Virginia City is a historic Nevada mining town famous for the Comstock Lode silver strike and its well-preserved 19th-century Old West character.
  • E. Wellington, Nevada
    Wellington, Nevada is a small unincorporated rural community in western Nevada known for ranching, agriculture, and its scenic location near the Sierra Nevada foothills.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c00907bc8881909ed760d3ed73ef35 elicitation completed
NER batch_69c0226118548190877793dadf6cacba ner completed
NED1 batch_69c097d0234881908f6716979a2ade3a ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.