Triple

T8684711
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject March railway station E206128 entity
Predicate hasFormerBranch P55690 FINISHED
Object March–Spalding line
The March–Spalding line was a former railway route in eastern England that connected the town of March in Cambridgeshire with Spalding in Lincolnshire.
E751285 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: March–Spalding line | Statement: [March railway station, hasFormerBranch, March–Spalding line]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: March–Spalding line
Context triple: [March railway station, hasFormerBranch, March–Spalding line]
  • A. Powell–Mason line
    The Powell–Mason line is one of San Francisco’s historic cable car routes, running between downtown and the Fisherman’s Wharf area and serving as both public transit and a popular tourist attraction.
  • B. Hallam line
    The Hallam line is a regional railway route in West Yorkshire, England, connecting Leeds with Sheffield via intermediate towns such as Barnsley.
  • C. The Big Dance
    The Big Dance is the widely used nickname for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top team in U.S. college basketball.
  • D. The Hoops
    The Hoops is the popular nickname of Shamrock Rovers F.C., one of Ireland’s most successful and historically significant football clubs.
  • E. The Hoops
    The Hoops is a common nickname for Queens Park Rangers Football Club, an English professional football team based in West London.
  • 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: March–Spalding line
Triple: [March railway station, hasFormerBranch, March–Spalding line]
Generated description
The March–Spalding line was a former railway route in eastern England that connected the town of March in Cambridgeshire with Spalding in Lincolnshire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: March–Spalding line
Target entity description: The March–Spalding line was a former railway route in eastern England that connected the town of March in Cambridgeshire with Spalding in Lincolnshire.
  • A. Powell–Mason line
    The Powell–Mason line is one of San Francisco’s historic cable car routes, running between downtown and the Fisherman’s Wharf area and serving as both public transit and a popular tourist attraction.
  • B. Hallam line
    The Hallam line is a regional railway route in West Yorkshire, England, connecting Leeds with Sheffield via intermediate towns such as Barnsley.
  • C. The Big Dance
    The Big Dance is the widely used nickname for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top team in U.S. college basketball.
  • D. The Hoops
    The Hoops is a common nickname for Queens Park Rangers Football Club, an English professional football team based in West London.
  • E. The Hoops
    The Hoops is the popular nickname of Shamrock Rovers F.C., one of Ireland’s most successful and historically significant football clubs.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasFormerBranch
Context triple: [March railway station, hasFormerBranch, March–Spalding line]
  • A. hasFormerBranchConnection chosen
    Indicates a relationship where two entities were previously connected through a branch affiliation that no longer exists.
  • B. previousBranch
    Indicates that one branch directly precedes another in an ordered sequence of branches.
  • C. hasStateBranch
    Indicates that one entity functions as a branch, subdivision, or local office of a larger parent entity within a particular state or regional jurisdiction.
  • D. hadBranchIn
    Indicates that an organization or entity maintained a branch, office, or subsidiary located in another specified place or entity.
  • E. hasFormerAnchor
    Indicates that an entity previously served as an anchor (e.g., host or main presenter) for another entity, but no longer holds that role.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ca835379688190aa06b9d98e684d58 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4aeae740819099093906ccc5f640 completed March 31, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cef3c3c74c81908cd9e881d5963492 completed April 2, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cef521010081908815779c0bd2aac9 completed April 2, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cef727ea088190bf40eaf5424ae864 completed April 2, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cc4569f9048190b9c86b4c81103d35 completed March 31, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.