Triple

T7677925
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michigan Department of Transportation E173911 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Michigan Department of Transportation Rail division E173911 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: Michigan Department of Transportation Rail division | Statement: [Michigan Department of Transportation, hasPart, Michigan Department of Transportation Rail division]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michigan Department of Transportation Rail division
Context triple: [Michigan Department of Transportation, hasPart, Michigan Department of Transportation Rail division]
  • A. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
    The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway was a major 19th-century American railroad that formed a key part of the New York Central system, linking the Great Lakes region with the Eastern United States.
  • B. Michigan Department of Transportation chosen
    The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
  • C. Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
    The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad was a historic rail line in the Midwestern United States that connected southern Michigan and northern Indiana to resort and timber regions along Lake Michigan and into northern Michigan.
  • D. Michigan Central Railroad
    Michigan Central Railroad was a major 19th- and early 20th-century American railroad company that operated key passenger and freight routes across Michigan and the Great Lakes region, connecting to Chicago and the broader Midwest rail network.
  • E. Railway Division
    The Railway Division is a specialist branch of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers that focuses on railway engineering, technology, and industry practice.
  • 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_69c6995703e0819081de77361b602e78 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701fd18d88190888144a7d0f228d9 completed March 27, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8a240057081908826a5371ef5215b completed March 29, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:01 p.m.