Triple

T8981973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seaboard System Railroad E214552 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Western Railway of Alabama E713554 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: Western Railway of Alabama | Statement: [Seaboard System Railroad, predecessor, Western Railway of Alabama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Western Railway of Alabama
Context triple: [Seaboard System Railroad, predecessor, Western Railway of Alabama]
  • A. Western Railway of Alabama chosen
    The Western Railway of Alabama was a regional railroad in the southeastern United States that played a key role in connecting Alabama to broader Southern rail networks.
  • B. Clinchfield Railroad
    Clinchfield Railroad was a U.S. Appalachian-region freight railroad renowned for its heavy coal traffic and engineering feats through the rugged mountains of Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
  • C. Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
    The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a major mid-20th-century U.S. railroad that operated freight and passenger services across the Midwest and South, notably linking the Gulf Coast with cities such as St. Louis and Chicago.
  • D. Western and Atlantic Railroad
    The Western and Atlantic Railroad was a 19th-century U.S. rail line in Georgia that played a crucial role in the development of Atlanta as a major transportation hub.
  • E. Alabama Great Southern Railroad
    The Alabama Great Southern Railroad was a historic rail line in the southeastern United States that later became part of the Southern Railway system.
  • 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_69ca839ea8b88190922c6a326ffcc0d3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc67a891e881909e4b84ed82491651 completed April 1, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc974f0f8819085c63deb53b95b80 completed April 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:03 p.m.