Triple
T8985554
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kingsville, Texas |
E214652
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasRailwayHistory |
P2411
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway
The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway was an early 20th-century railroad that helped open and develop South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley by connecting the region to national rail networks.
|
E771410
|
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: St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway | Statement: [Kingsville, Texas, hasRailwayHistory, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Context triple: [Kingsville, Texas, hasRailwayHistory, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway]
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A.
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, commonly known as the Frisco, was a major American railroad that operated in the central and south-central United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
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B.
Colorado Central Railroad
The Colorado Central Railroad was a 19th-century narrow-gauge railroad in Colorado that played a key role in serving the region’s mining communities and connecting mountain towns to larger rail networks.
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C.
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, commonly known as the Nickel Plate Road, was a prominent Midwestern and Great Lakes region railroad in the United States that operated major freight and passenger services between key industrial cities.
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D.
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
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E.
Texas and New Orleans Railroad
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad was a major regional rail carrier in Texas and Louisiana that became a key component of the Southern Pacific system in the American Southwest.
- 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: St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Triple: [Kingsville, Texas, hasRailwayHistory, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway]
Generated description
The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway was an early 20th-century railroad that helped open and develop South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley by connecting the region to national rail networks.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Target entity description: The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway was an early 20th-century railroad that helped open and develop South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley by connecting the region to national rail networks.
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A.
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, commonly known as the Frisco, was a major American railroad that operated in the central and south-central United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
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B.
Colorado Central Railroad
The Colorado Central Railroad was a 19th-century narrow-gauge railroad in Colorado that played a key role in serving the region’s mining communities and connecting mountain towns to larger rail networks.
-
C.
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, commonly known as the Nickel Plate Road, was a prominent Midwestern and Great Lakes region railroad in the United States that operated major freight and passenger services between key industrial cities.
-
D.
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
-
E.
Texas and New Orleans Railroad
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad was a major regional rail carrier in Texas and Louisiana that became a key component of the Southern Pacific system in the American Southwest.
- 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_69ca839f76bc8190a4b7123cdd682199 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc67eddbf08190afca16e0be435241 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:33 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfd0bdb05c8190bb1fb5f0272a450a |
completed | April 3, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cfd25b98208190bbdfe0d8bd13e183 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 2:44 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cfd2ef0e788190843f270564add7a2 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 2:47 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:03 p.m.