Triple

T6851953
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kansas City Southern Railway E158040 entity
Predicate parentOrganization P254 FINISHED
Object Kansas City Southern (holding company)
Kansas City Southern (holding company) was a U.S.-based transportation holding company that owned and operated the Kansas City Southern Railway and other rail-related assets in North America.
E158040 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: Kansas City Southern (holding company) | Statement: [Kansas City Southern Railway, parentOrganization, Kansas City Southern (holding company)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kansas City Southern (holding company)
Context triple: [Kansas City Southern Railway, parentOrganization, Kansas City Southern (holding company)]
  • A. Kansas City Southern Railway
    Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
  • B. Kansas City Southern de México
    Kansas City Southern de México is a major Mexican railway company that operates freight rail services connecting key industrial regions in Mexico with the United States.
  • C. Santa Fe Pacific Corporation
    Santa Fe Pacific Corporation was a diversified American holding company best known for owning and operating the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and related natural resource businesses in the late 20th century.
  • D. The Texas Company
    The Texas Company, later known as Texaco, was a major American oil and gas corporation that became one of the world’s leading petroleum brands.
  • E. CSX Transportation
    CSX Transportation is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
  • 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: Kansas City Southern (holding company)
Triple: [Kansas City Southern Railway, parentOrganization, Kansas City Southern (holding company)]
Generated description
Kansas City Southern (holding company) was a U.S.-based transportation holding company that owned and operated the Kansas City Southern Railway and other rail-related assets in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kansas City Southern (holding company)
Target entity description: Kansas City Southern (holding company) was a U.S.-based transportation holding company that owned and operated the Kansas City Southern Railway and other rail-related assets in North America.
  • A. Kansas City Southern Railway chosen
    Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
  • B. Kansas City Southern de México
    Kansas City Southern de México is a major Mexican railway company that operates freight rail services connecting key industrial regions in Mexico with the United States.
  • C. Santa Fe Pacific Corporation
    Santa Fe Pacific Corporation was a diversified American holding company best known for owning and operating the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and related natural resource businesses in the late 20th century.
  • D. The Texas Company
    The Texas Company, later known as Texaco, was a major American oil and gas corporation that became one of the world’s leading petroleum brands.
  • E. CSX Transportation
    CSX Transportation is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
  • 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_69c6882fae988190864cbba788c5ebb4 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d84e6fb08190915954be5b0df2d8 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c72fd2800c8190997c0bc7ff3e1491 completed March 28, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c73208e9408190b246837c0e436575 completed March 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7326b04ac8190a700061e6546cb50 completed March 28, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:20 p.m.