Triple
T7690837
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dublin–Westport railway line (branch to Ballina) |
E174239
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalOperator |
P2834
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Great Southern Railways
Great Southern Railways was a major Irish railway company that operated much of the country’s rail network in the early to mid-20th century.
|
E681866
|
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: Great Southern Railways | Statement: [Dublin–Westport railway line (branch to Ballina), historicalOperator, Great Southern Railways]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Southern Railways Context triple: [Dublin–Westport railway line (branch to Ballina), historicalOperator, Great Southern Railways]
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A.
Great Southern Rail
Great Southern Rail is an Australian long-distance passenger train operator best known for running iconic interstate services such as The Ghan and the Indian Pacific.
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B.
Victorian Railways
Victorian Railways was the former state-owned railway operator in Victoria, Australia, responsible for running most of the state's passenger and freight train services for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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C.
Canada Southern Railway
Canada Southern Railway was a 19th- and early 20th-century railway company that operated a key east–west main line across southern Ontario, providing an important international link between the U.S. and Canada.
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D.
Southern Railway (UK)
Southern Railway (UK) was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated routes in southern England, including busy commuter and coastal lines, until nationalisation in 1948.
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E.
NSW Government Railways
NSW Government Railways was the former state-owned agency responsible for operating and managing New South Wales’ railway network in Australia.
- 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: Great Southern Railways Triple: [Dublin–Westport railway line (branch to Ballina), historicalOperator, Great Southern Railways]
Generated description
Great Southern Railways was a major Irish railway company that operated much of the country’s rail network in the early to mid-20th century.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Southern Railways Target entity description: Great Southern Railways was a major Irish railway company that operated much of the country’s rail network in the early to mid-20th century.
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A.
Great Southern Rail
Great Southern Rail is an Australian long-distance passenger train operator best known for running iconic interstate services such as The Ghan and the Indian Pacific.
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B.
Victorian Railways
Victorian Railways was the former state-owned railway operator in Victoria, Australia, responsible for running most of the state's passenger and freight train services for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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C.
Canada Southern Railway
Canada Southern Railway was a 19th- and early 20th-century railway company that operated a key east–west main line across southern Ontario, providing an important international link between the U.S. and Canada.
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D.
Southern Railway (UK)
Southern Railway (UK) was a major British railway company formed in 1923 that operated routes in southern England, including busy commuter and coastal lines, until nationalisation in 1948.
-
E.
NSW Government Railways
NSW Government Railways was the former state-owned agency responsible for operating and managing New South Wales’ railway network in Australia.
- 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_69c6995966348190939e6c37ba272c06 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c702421dec8190a74f8ade992ca811 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 10:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c8a26686a08190acf66586f6c7592b |
completed | March 29, 2026, 3:54 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c8a34c93a081908ec3509c3abb3866 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 3:58 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c8a3b4e0a88190ad525c83bd03e09f |
completed | March 29, 2026, 3:59 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:02 p.m.