Triple

T7810406
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Leyland railway station E180664 entity
Predicate originalOperator P179 FINISHED
Object North Union Railway
The North Union Railway was an early 19th-century British railway company that operated lines in northwest England and later became part of the London and North Western Railway.
E694579 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: North Union Railway | Statement: [Leyland railway station, originalOperator, North Union Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North Union Railway
Context triple: [Leyland railway station, originalOperator, North Union Railway]
  • A. Alloway and Quinton Railroad
    The Alloway and Quinton Railroad was a small regional rail line in southern New Jersey that later became part of the larger West Jersey and Seashore Railroad system.
  • B. South Side Railroad
    South Side Railroad was a key 19th-century rail line in Virginia that linked the strategic transportation hub of Petersburg with Richmond and other points west, playing an important role in regional commerce and Civil War logistics.
  • C. Great Western Main Line
    The Great Western Main Line is a major intercity railway route in England that connects London with key cities in the west, including Bristol and South Wales.
  • D. Cumberland Valley Railroad
    The Cumberland Valley Railroad was a historic American railroad that operated primarily in south-central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, playing a key role in regional transportation during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
    The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was a pioneering 19th-century rail line in Missouri, notable as one of the first railroads to cross the state and for carrying early Pony Express mail.
  • 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: North Union Railway
Triple: [Leyland railway station, originalOperator, North Union Railway]
Generated description
The North Union Railway was an early 19th-century British railway company that operated lines in northwest England and later became part of the London and North Western Railway.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North Union Railway
Target entity description: The North Union Railway was an early 19th-century British railway company that operated lines in northwest England and later became part of the London and North Western Railway.
  • A. Alloway and Quinton Railroad
    The Alloway and Quinton Railroad was a small regional rail line in southern New Jersey that later became part of the larger West Jersey and Seashore Railroad system.
  • B. South Side Railroad
    South Side Railroad was a key 19th-century rail line in Virginia that linked the strategic transportation hub of Petersburg with Richmond and other points west, playing an important role in regional commerce and Civil War logistics.
  • C. Great Western Main Line
    The Great Western Main Line is a major intercity railway route in England that connects London with key cities in the west, including Bristol and South Wales.
  • D. Cumberland Valley Railroad
    The Cumberland Valley Railroad was a historic American railroad that operated primarily in south-central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, playing a key role in regional transportation during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
    The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was a pioneering 19th-century rail line in Missouri, notable as one of the first railroads to cross the state and for carrying early Pony Express mail.
  • 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_69ca827f6f148190beca4e245b993506 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69caf78bb4b08190b2b3b51c5a0a033c completed March 30, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb14651d488190b1bf6b875a2ebccd completed March 31, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb173190a88190b31fd7973bc19d43 completed March 31, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb1a56d25881908b8413b82edf5508 completed March 31, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:37 p.m.