Triple
T6851965
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kansas City Southern Railway |
E158040
|
entity |
| Predicate | servedRegion |
P82
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Midwestern United States |
E405
|
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: Midwestern United States | Statement: [Kansas City Southern Railway, servedRegion, Midwestern United States]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Midwestern United States Context triple: [Kansas City Southern Railway, servedRegion, Midwestern United States]
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A.
Midwestern United States
chosen
The Midwestern United States is a region of the country known for its agricultural heartland, major industrial cities, and central role in American culture and history.
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B.
Midwest Region
The Midwest Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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C.
Central Plains region
The Central Plains region is a key economic and cultural heartland of China, centered around the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and encompassing major inland cities and agricultural areas.
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D.
Central United States
The Central United States is a broad region of the country that spans the middle portion of the contiguous U.S., encompassing parts of the Midwest, Great Plains, and South.
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E.
Middle West
Middle West is an independent record label known for releasing music by projects such as Justin Vernon’s blues-rock band The Shouting Matches.
- 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_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_69c748b977948190b60a85b93d61794a |
completed | March 28, 2026, 3:19 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:20 p.m.