Triple
T6948695
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | CNI |
E160864
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasUnderlyingLegalName |
P74238
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Canadian National Railway Company |
E30762
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Canadian National Railway Company | Statement: [CNI, hasUnderlyingLegalName, Canadian National Railway Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canadian National Railway Company Context triple: [CNI, hasUnderlyingLegalName, Canadian National Railway Company]
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A.
Canadian National Railway
chosen
Canadian National Railway is a major Canadian freight railway company that operates an extensive rail network across Canada and into the United States.
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B.
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway is a historic Canadian transcontinental railway company that played a central role in the country’s development and later expanded into a major transportation and hospitality conglomerate.
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C.
Grand Trunk Corporation
Grand Trunk Corporation is a U.S.-based holding company that oversees Canadian National Railway’s rail operations and assets in the United States.
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D.
Canadian Northern Railway
The Canadian Northern Railway was an early 20th-century Canadian transcontinental railway whose network later became a core component of the Canadian National Railway system.
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E.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited is a major North American freight railway company formed by the merger of Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern, operating an extensive rail network connecting Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasUnderlyingLegalName Context triple: [CNI, hasUnderlyingLegalName, Canadian National Railway Company]
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A.
hasUnderlyingCompanyLegalForm
Indicates that an entity is associated with, or governed by, a specific underlying legal form of a company.
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B.
hasUnderlyingLEI
Indicates that an entity is associated with, or identified by, a specific underlying Legal Entity Identifier (LEI).
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C.
hasTradeName
Indicates that a product, substance, or entity is known or marketed under a specific commercial or brand name.
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D.
hasArtistLegalName
Indicates that an artist entity is associated with a specific legal (real) name used for official or formal purposes.
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E.
isTradeNameOf
Indicates that one name is a commercial or brand designation used for a product, substance, or entity that may also have a different generic or formal name.
- 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_69c68850419081909fb426b8f5a304c7 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6dacca12481908942ba793a104cc3 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7a30ef6d88190aa4bb0d70d54d263 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 9:44 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69c6d7bf0a7c8190b5ed4aca22ba9b97 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:17 p.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69c6dacb524c81909aade2282a4c0c01 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:28 p.m.