Triple
T6350282
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Rail Engineering Limited |
E142851
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
British Railways workshops
British Railways workshops were the in-house engineering and maintenance facilities of the former British Railways, responsible for building, repairing, and overhauling the national rail fleet and infrastructure.
|
E142851
|
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: British Railways workshops | Statement: [British Rail Engineering Limited, predecessor, British Railways workshops]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Railways workshops Context triple: [British Rail Engineering Limited, predecessor, British Railways workshops]
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A.
British Rail Engineering Limited
British Rail Engineering Limited was the former engineering subsidiary of British Rail, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining much of the UK’s rolling stock and railway equipment.
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B.
Railway Technical Centre
The Railway Technical Centre is a major British rail research and development facility in Derby that has historically served as the central hub for engineering, testing, and innovation for the UK railway industry.
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C.
Crewe Works
Crewe Works is a historic railway engineering and manufacturing facility in Crewe, England, renowned for building and maintaining locomotives and rolling stock since the 19th century.
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D.
Swindon Works
Swindon Works was a major railway engineering and locomotive manufacturing facility of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, England.
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E.
Doncaster Works
Doncaster Works is a historic British railway engineering and locomotive-building facility in Doncaster, England, long associated with the construction and maintenance of notable steam locomotives.
- 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: British Railways workshops Triple: [British Rail Engineering Limited, predecessor, British Railways workshops]
Generated description
British Railways workshops were the in-house engineering and maintenance facilities of the former British Railways, responsible for building, repairing, and overhauling the national rail fleet and infrastructure.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Railways workshops Target entity description: British Railways workshops were the in-house engineering and maintenance facilities of the former British Railways, responsible for building, repairing, and overhauling the national rail fleet and infrastructure.
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A.
British Rail Engineering Limited
chosen
British Rail Engineering Limited was the former engineering subsidiary of British Rail, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining much of the UK’s rolling stock and railway equipment.
-
B.
Railway Technical Centre
The Railway Technical Centre is a major British rail research and development facility in Derby that has historically served as the central hub for engineering, testing, and innovation for the UK railway industry.
-
C.
Crewe Works
Crewe Works is a historic railway engineering and manufacturing facility in Crewe, England, renowned for building and maintaining locomotives and rolling stock since the 19th century.
-
D.
Swindon Works
Swindon Works was a major railway engineering and locomotive manufacturing facility of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, England.
-
E.
Doncaster Works
Doncaster Works is a historic British railway engineering and locomotive-building facility in Doncaster, England, long associated with the construction and maintenance of notable steam locomotives.
- F. None of above.
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_69c008d6dcbc8190aa1c2f1fd8916b42 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c067bcec2c8190bb383605847b0f0b |
completed | March 22, 2026, 10:05 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c6044fcd288190abdc5746e2904928 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 4:15 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c6083573c48190ba629b72cbaf4ef3 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 4:31 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c6092e12d481909b41fd35d6ae1d57 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 4:35 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:31 p.m.