Triple

T954937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Swiss Federal Railways E20604 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Schweizerische Nordwestbahn
Schweizerische Nordwestbahn was a former Swiss railway company that operated in northwestern Switzerland before being absorbed into the national rail system.
E118899 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: Schweizerische Nordwestbahn | Statement: [Swiss Federal Railways, precededBy, Schweizerische Nordwestbahn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Schweizerische Nordwestbahn
Context triple: [Swiss Federal Railways, precededBy, Schweizerische Nordwestbahn]
  • A. Schweizerische Nordostbahn
    Schweizerische Nordostbahn was a major 19th-century Swiss private railway company that operated in northeastern Switzerland before being nationalized into the Swiss Federal Railways.
  • B. Schweizerische Centralbahn
    Schweizerische Centralbahn was a 19th-century Swiss railway company that operated key lines in northern and central Switzerland before being absorbed into the national railway system.
  • C. Swiss Federal Railways
    Swiss Federal Railways is Switzerland’s national railway company, responsible for operating the majority of the country’s passenger and freight rail services and managing much of its rail infrastructure.
  • D. Bern–Biel/Bienne railway line
    The Bern–Biel/Bienne railway line is a major Swiss standard-gauge route connecting the capital city of Bern with the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, serving as an important corridor for both regional and intercity passenger traffic.
  • E. Bern–Thun railway line
    The Bern–Thun railway line is a key Swiss rail route connecting the capital city of Bern with the town of Thun, serving as an important corridor for both regional and long-distance passenger services.
  • 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: Schweizerische Nordwestbahn
Triple: [Swiss Federal Railways, precededBy, Schweizerische Nordwestbahn]
Generated description
Schweizerische Nordwestbahn was a former Swiss railway company that operated in northwestern Switzerland before being absorbed into the national rail system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Schweizerische Nordwestbahn
Target entity description: Schweizerische Nordwestbahn was a former Swiss railway company that operated in northwestern Switzerland before being absorbed into the national rail system.
  • A. Schweizerische Nordostbahn
    Schweizerische Nordostbahn was a major 19th-century Swiss private railway company that operated in northeastern Switzerland before being nationalized into the Swiss Federal Railways.
  • B. Schweizerische Centralbahn
    Schweizerische Centralbahn was a 19th-century Swiss railway company that operated key lines in northern and central Switzerland before being absorbed into the national railway system.
  • C. Swiss Federal Railways
    Swiss Federal Railways is Switzerland’s national railway company, responsible for operating the majority of the country’s passenger and freight rail services and managing much of its rail infrastructure.
  • D. Bern–Fribourg railway line
    The Bern–Fribourg railway line is a key Swiss standard-gauge rail route connecting the cities of Bern and Fribourg, forming part of an important national and international transit corridor.
  • E. Bern–Biel/Bienne railway line
    The Bern–Biel/Bienne railway line is a major Swiss standard-gauge route connecting the capital city of Bern with the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, serving as an important corridor for both regional and intercity passenger traffic.
  • 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_69a493b21f2881908132dcf45dcd2f36 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3f7a7608190b8a8dd2486654bec completed March 1, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac2a11e4148190bb18849c52c2ed9a completed March 7, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac366e1a488190a30cd2806615c334 completed March 7, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac38dd63008190b9bccd53be4583de completed March 7, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.