Triple
T8923316
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Great Allegheny Passage |
E212477
|
entity |
| Predicate | usesFormerLineOf |
P32801
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad |
E457731
|
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: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad | Statement: [Great Allegheny Passage, usesFormerLineOf, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Context triple: [Great Allegheny Passage, usesFormerLineOf, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad]
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A.
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
chosen
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad was a regional U.S. railroad based in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, known for its heavy involvement in transporting steel and industrial freight.
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B.
Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad was a major 19th- and early 20th-century American railroad that operated extensive passenger and freight services across the northeastern United States, particularly linking New York City with the Midwest.
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C.
Pittsburgh Railways
Pittsburgh Railways was a major streetcar and public transit operator in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for running one of the largest PCC streetcar fleets in the United States.
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D.
Erie Lackawanna Railway
Erie Lackawanna Railway was a mid-20th-century U.S. railroad formed from the merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, known for serving the Northeast and Midwest before its assets were absorbed into Conrail.
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E.
Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad
The Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad was a 19th-century rail line in northern Ohio that became a key predecessor to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.
- 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_69ca839481d48190b42b037e0d0f636c |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc6652d63881908821c8735984322a |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:26 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfc1d31f84819098c34c2589949c6e |
completed | April 3, 2026, 1:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:56 p.m.