Triple

T9490901
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian Pacific Railway E228883 entity
Predicate hasMerger P88411 FINISHED
Object Kansas City Southern Railway E158040 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Kansas City Southern Railway | Statement: [Canadian Pacific Railway, hasMerger, Kansas City Southern Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kansas City Southern Railway
Context triple: [Canadian Pacific Railway, hasMerger, Kansas City Southern Railway]
  • A. Kansas City Southern Railway chosen
    Kansas City Southern Railway was a major North American freight railroad that operated a core network linking the U.S. Midwest with the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
  • B. 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.
  • C. St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad
    The St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad was a regional U.S. railroad line that operated in the early 20th century, later becoming part of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (Frisco) system.
  • D. Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
    The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a prominent Southern U.S. railroad that connected key cities across Tennessee and neighboring states, playing a major role in regional transportation and commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasMerger
Context triple: [Canadian Pacific Railway, hasMerger, Kansas City Southern Railway]
  • A. canMerge
    Indicates that two or more entities are compatible in such a way that they can be combined into a single unified entity or structure.
  • B. mergerResult
    Indicates that one or more entities have combined into a single entity, specifying the outcome or resulting entity of the merger.
  • C. hasOwnerBeforeMerger
    Indicates that an entity had a particular owner prior to a merger event taking place.
  • D. mergedBy
    Indicates that one entity is combined or integrated into another entity through the action or decision of a specific agent.
  • E. mergerResultedIn
    Indicates that a merger between entities led to the creation, change, or outcome represented by the related entity or state.
  • 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_69ca847424f081908180305555139f7a completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd80c89ec48190a2ad49394cab9c56 completed April 1, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d12d27c0808190baf5ae04a1b915bb completed April 4, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cca561e6b0819090aa795f3c3a2083 completed April 1, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69cca89d0f0c8190b4528990fe708fca completed April 1, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:55 p.m.