Triple
T788708
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rail Delivery Group |
E16861
|
entity |
| Predicate | formedByMergerOf |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Association of Train Operating Companies |
E16861
|
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: Association of Train Operating Companies | Statement: [Rail Delivery Group, formedByMergerOf, Association of Train Operating Companies]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Association of Train Operating Companies Context triple: [Rail Delivery Group, formedByMergerOf, Association of Train Operating Companies]
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A.
Northern Trains
Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
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B.
Virgin Trains
Virgin Trains was a British train operating company under Richard Branson’s Virgin Group brand that ran long-distance passenger rail services in the UK.
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C.
Network Rail
Network Rail is the owner and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain, responsible for tracks, signals, major stations, and related assets.
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D.
Rail Delivery Group
chosen
Rail Delivery Group is the industry body that represents and coordinates Britain’s passenger and freight train operators and Network Rail, working to improve and manage the national rail system.
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E.
British Rail
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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a782fe988190966b958673fe12bf |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a6787eac608190acc40d56f827284e |
completed | March 3, 2026, 5:58 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.