Triple
T746022
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
E15342
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Railways Scottish Region |
E15757
|
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: British Railways Scottish Region | Statement: [London, Midland and Scottish Railway, successor, British Railways Scottish Region]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Railways Scottish Region Context triple: [London, Midland and Scottish Railway, successor, British Railways Scottish Region]
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A.
Glasgow and South Western Railway
The Glasgow and South Western Railway was a major pre-grouping Scottish railway company that operated routes in southwest Scotland and connected Glasgow with Ayrshire, Dumfries, and England.
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B.
North British Railway
North British Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish railway company that operated extensive routes across central and eastern Scotland before becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
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C.
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated an extensive network across England, Scotland, and Wales until nationalisation in 1948.
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D.
London and North Eastern Railway
London and North Eastern Railway was a major British railway company formed in 1923, known for operating key routes in eastern and northeastern England and for famous express trains like the Flying Scotsman and Mallard.
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E.
British Rail
chosen
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
- 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_69a49358aa308190adbc9b5a0a2adcf9 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a62ca1d081908e3191411f86498d |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a79282d4d481908a2cb0f95a93220e |
completed | March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.