Triple

T5813240
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Pacific Railroad E128920 entity
Predicate corporatePredecessor P37738 FINISHED
Object Western Pacific Railway Company E128920 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Western Pacific Railway Company | Statement: [Western Pacific Railroad, corporatePredecessor, Western Pacific Railway Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Pacific Railway Company
Context triple: [Western Pacific Railroad, corporatePredecessor, Western Pacific Railway Company]
  • A. Western Pacific Railroad chosen
    Western Pacific Railroad was a major American railroad company that operated primarily in the western United States, known for its scenic transcontinental routes and competitive service against larger carriers like the Southern Pacific.
  • B. Northern Pacific Railway
    The Northern Pacific Railway was a major transcontinental railroad in the northern United States that played a key role in opening and developing the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Georgia Pacific Railway
    Georgia Pacific Railway was a 19th-century American railroad company in the southeastern United States that later became part of the Southern Railway system.
  • D. Northwestern Pacific Railroad
    The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was a historic rail line in Northern California that connected the San Francisco Bay Area to communities throughout Marin, Sonoma, and Humboldt counties, supporting regional passenger and freight transport.
  • E. Southern Pacific Railroad
    Southern Pacific Railroad was a major American railroad company that operated extensive rail networks across the western and southwestern United States from the 19th to the late 20th century.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: corporatePredecessor
Context triple: [Western Pacific Railroad, corporatePredecessor, Western Pacific Railway Company]
  • A. isCorporatePrecursorOf chosen
    Indicates that one corporate entity is a predecessor in the organizational or legal lineage of another corporate entity, such as through merger, acquisition, or reorganization.
  • B. formerParentCompany
    Indicates that one entity previously served as the parent company of another but no longer holds that status.
  • C. organizationalPrecursorOf
    Indicates that one organization functioned as a predecessor or antecedent to another organization in terms of structure, role, or continuity.
  • D. predecessorCEO
    Indicates that one person previously held the position of CEO before another specific person.
  • E. formerOrganization
    Indicates that an entity was previously affiliated with or employed by a given organization, but is no longer associated with it.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69c0084788848190bcf71f6bc5d71597 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02b56044c8190847478a342d441c2 completed March 22, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c09848dd148190aeea1b1d454b8da5 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c021d5ecd081908a62dd66e26f8598 completed March 22, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:52 p.m.