Triple

T18977028
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alston Moor E464320 entity
Predicate hasTransportHistory P31374 FINISHED
Object Alston branch railway
The Alston branch railway was a rural branch line in northern England that once connected the remote Alston Moor area to the wider rail network, primarily serving local passengers and freight.
E1352809 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: Alston branch railway | Statement: [Alston Moor, hasTransportHistory, Alston branch railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alston branch railway
Context triple: [Alston Moor, hasTransportHistory, Alston branch railway]
  • A. Henley Branch Line
    The Henley Branch Line is a short railway branch in Oxfordshire, England, connecting the town of Henley-on-Thames to the Great Western Main Line.
  • B. Marlow Branch Line
    The Marlow Branch Line is a short railway route in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, England, connecting Maidenhead to Marlow via intermediate stations such as Cookham.
  • C. Rishworth branch line
    The Rishworth branch line was a former railway branch in West Yorkshire, England, that served rural communities in the Ryburn Valley before its closure in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Kinleith Branch railway line
    The Kinleith Branch railway line is a New Zealand rail line in the Waikato region that primarily serves freight traffic, especially from the Kinleith pulp and paper mill, connecting it to the national rail network.
  • E. Churnet Valley Line
    The Churnet Valley Line is a historic railway route in Staffordshire, England, known for following the scenic Churnet Valley and now partly operating as a heritage railway.
  • 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: Alston branch railway
Triple: [Alston Moor, hasTransportHistory, Alston branch railway]
Generated description
The Alston branch railway was a rural branch line in northern England that once connected the remote Alston Moor area to the wider rail network, primarily serving local passengers and freight.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alston branch railway
Target entity description: The Alston branch railway was a rural branch line in northern England that once connected the remote Alston Moor area to the wider rail network, primarily serving local passengers and freight.
  • A. Henley Branch Line
    The Henley Branch Line is a short railway branch in Oxfordshire, England, connecting the town of Henley-on-Thames to the Great Western Main Line.
  • B. Marlow Branch Line
    The Marlow Branch Line is a short railway route in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, England, connecting Maidenhead to Marlow via intermediate stations such as Cookham.
  • C. Rishworth branch line
    The Rishworth branch line was a former railway branch in West Yorkshire, England, that served rural communities in the Ryburn Valley before its closure in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Kinleith Branch railway line
    The Kinleith Branch railway line is a New Zealand rail line in the Waikato region that primarily serves freight traffic, especially from the Kinleith pulp and paper mill, connecting it to the national rail network.
  • E. Churnet Valley Line
    The Churnet Valley Line is a historic railway route in Staffordshire, England, known for following the scenic Churnet Valley and now partly operating as a heritage railway.
  • 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_69d8dd008af48190a97ff1c6488edf1b completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d620bba48190a300dba9733592b0 completed April 20, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05ad3f8c0c8190aad9693b3a9360db completed May 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05af056a0c8190969f3b7a371aa453 completed May 14, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05afb1c02481909018f47be226f486 completed May 14, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon