Triple

T6851975
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kansas City Southern Railway E158040 entity
Predicate railroadReportingMark P18202 FINISHED
Object Tex-Mex
Tex-Mex is a regional railroad in northern Mexico and southern Texas that operates as a subsidiary of Kansas City Southern, providing freight transportation across the U.S.–Mexico border.
E623709 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: Tex-Mex | Statement: [Kansas City Southern Railway, railroadReportingMark, Tex-Mex]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tex-Mex
Context triple: [Kansas City Southern Railway, railroadReportingMark, Tex-Mex]
  • A. Tex-Mex
    Tex-Mex is a hybrid musical and cultural style from the U.S.–Mexico border region that blends Mexican folk traditions with American rock, country, and rhythm and blues influences.
  • B. Tex-Mex tacos
    Tex-Mex tacos are a popular Americanized Mexican dish typically featuring seasoned ground beef, shredded cheese, lettuce, and other toppings in a hard or soft tortilla shell.
  • C. Mexican cuisine
    Mexican cuisine is a diverse culinary tradition known for its bold flavors, use of corn, beans, chilies, and fresh herbs, and regional dishes such as tacos, mole, and tamales.
  • D. The Mexican
    The Mexican is a 2001 crime-comedy film starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts that blends romance, dark humor, and a quirky road-trip plot centered around a legendary cursed pistol.
  • E. Mexicanero
    Mexicanero are an Indigenous Nahua-speaking people of western Mexico, primarily living in the state of Nayarit and surrounding regions.
  • 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: Tex-Mex
Triple: [Kansas City Southern Railway, railroadReportingMark, Tex-Mex]
Generated description
Tex-Mex is a regional railroad in northern Mexico and southern Texas that operates as a subsidiary of Kansas City Southern, providing freight transportation across the U.S.–Mexico border.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tex-Mex
Target entity description: Tex-Mex is a regional railroad in northern Mexico and southern Texas that operates as a subsidiary of Kansas City Southern, providing freight transportation across the U.S.–Mexico border.
  • A. Tex-Mex
    Tex-Mex is a hybrid musical and cultural style from the U.S.–Mexico border region that blends Mexican folk traditions with American rock, country, and rhythm and blues influences.
  • B. Tex-Mex tacos
    Tex-Mex tacos are a popular Americanized Mexican dish typically featuring seasoned ground beef, shredded cheese, lettuce, and other toppings in a hard or soft tortilla shell.
  • C. Mexican cuisine
    Mexican cuisine is a diverse culinary tradition known for its bold flavors, use of corn, beans, chilies, and fresh herbs, and regional dishes such as tacos, mole, and tamales.
  • D. The Mexican
    The Mexican is a 2001 crime-comedy film starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts that blends romance, dark humor, and a quirky road-trip plot centered around a legendary cursed pistol.
  • E. Mexicanero
    Mexicanero are an Indigenous Nahua-speaking people of western Mexico, primarily living in the state of Nayarit and surrounding regions.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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.