Triple
T5999057
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Northern Securities Company |
E133548
|
entity |
| Predicate | ownedSharesIn |
P24510
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Northern Pacific Railway |
E154551
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Northern Pacific Railway | Statement: [Northern Securities Company, ownedSharesIn, Northern Pacific Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Pacific Railway Context triple: [Northern Securities Company, ownedSharesIn, Northern Pacific Railway]
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A.
Northern Pacific Railway
chosen
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.
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B.
Northern Pacific
The Northern Pacific is the northern portion of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing vast open waters and numerous island groups and archipelagos across the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was an early 20th-century Pacific Northwest railroad line, backed by railroad magnate James J. Hill, that connected key cities along the Columbia River and facilitated regional trade and transportation.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c00870ddbc81909880fa3864f4f38d |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0560bae148190ad4755defaaf471b |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c1136338088190be26e6393b04e018 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 10:18 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:05 p.m.