Triple

T6273317
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gold Hill E140590 entity
Predicate servedBy P82 FINISHED
Object Virginia and Truckee Railroad E147909 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 and Truckee Railroad | Statement: [Gold Hill, servedBy, Virginia and Truckee Railroad]

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 and Truckee Railroad
Context triple: [Gold Hill, servedBy, Virginia and Truckee Railroad]
  • A. Virginia and Truckee Railroad chosen
    The Virginia and Truckee Railroad was a historic 19th-century short-line railway in Nevada that played a crucial role in transporting ore, supplies, and passengers for the Comstock Lode mining boom.
  • B. Winchester and Western Railroad
    Winchester and Western Railroad is a regional shortline railroad that operates freight services in parts of the Mid-Atlantic United States, including the South Jersey area.
  • C. California Western Railroad
    California Western Railroad is a historic short-line railway in Northern California, best known for its scenic "Skunk Train" excursions through the redwood forests between Willits and Fort Bragg.
  • D. Sacramento Northern Railway
    The Sacramento Northern Railway was an interurban electric railway in Northern California that connected the San Francisco Bay Area with the Sacramento Valley and was later controlled by the Western Pacific Railroad.
  • E. Sacramento Southern Railroad
    The Sacramento Southern Railroad is a heritage railway in Sacramento, California, offering excursion train rides along the Sacramento River as part of the California State Railroad Museum’s operations.
  • 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_69c008cc158881908df6ec94a911c736 elicitation completed
NER batch_69c063be5a148190a8752426d2d220f8 ner completed
NED1 batch_69c2446ad060819094acd817ba5eadc9 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.