Triple

T9056133
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Henry E217000 entity
Predicate belongsToTradition P6900 FINISHED
Object American railroad ballads
American railroad ballads are a body of traditional folk songs that narrate the lives, labor, and legends of railroad workers and the expansion of the railroads in the United States.
E775100 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: American railroad ballads | Statement: [John Henry, belongsToTradition, American railroad ballads]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American railroad ballads
Context triple: [John Henry, belongsToTradition, American railroad ballads]
  • A. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
    "I’ve Been Working on the Railroad" is a traditional American folk song and children’s tune that humorously depicts the daily life and labor of railroad workers.
  • B. Songs from the Depression
    Songs from the Depression is a folk music album by The New Lost City Ramblers that features traditional songs reflecting the hardships and social struggles of the Great Depression era.
  • C. Border ballads
    Border ballads are traditional narrative folk songs from the Anglo-Scottish border region, often recounting tales of love, conflict, and local legend.
  • D. The Singing Brakeman
    The Singing Brakeman was the nickname of Jimmie Rodgers, a pioneering early country music star famed for his distinctive yodeling and railroad-themed songs.
  • E. The Railroad Stories
    The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
  • 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: American railroad ballads
Triple: [John Henry, belongsToTradition, American railroad ballads]
Generated description
American railroad ballads are a body of traditional folk songs that narrate the lives, labor, and legends of railroad workers and the expansion of the railroads in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American railroad ballads
Target entity description: American railroad ballads are a body of traditional folk songs that narrate the lives, labor, and legends of railroad workers and the expansion of the railroads in the United States.
  • A. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
    "I’ve Been Working on the Railroad" is a traditional American folk song and children’s tune that humorously depicts the daily life and labor of railroad workers.
  • B. Songs from the Depression
    Songs from the Depression is a folk music album by The New Lost City Ramblers that features traditional songs reflecting the hardships and social struggles of the Great Depression era.
  • C. Border ballads
    Border ballads are traditional narrative folk songs from the Anglo-Scottish border region, often recounting tales of love, conflict, and local legend.
  • D. The Singing Brakeman
    The Singing Brakeman was the nickname of Jimmie Rodgers, a pioneering early country music star famed for his distinctive yodeling and railroad-themed songs.
  • E. The Railroad Stories
    The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
  • 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_69ca83d4425481909a319dab847724ec completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc7a75d8e881909414d745ec054182 completed April 1, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfebdb01a8819084365c9b73506a28 completed April 3, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfeda64d488190ad6f514f2e5c6195 completed April 3, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfee809b54819089d4d0d5c555e428 completed April 3, 2026, 4:44 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:10 p.m.