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]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.