Triple

T19029480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gisborne railway station E465696 entity
Predicate formerOperator P179 FINISHED
Object New Zealand Railways Department
The New Zealand Railways Department was the former government agency responsible for owning, operating, and developing New Zealand’s national railway network and related transport services.
E1338916 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: New Zealand Railways Department | Statement: [Gisborne railway station, formerOperator, New Zealand Railways Department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Zealand Railways Department
Context triple: [Gisborne railway station, formerOperator, New Zealand Railways Department]
  • A. New Zealand Railways Corporation
    New Zealand Railways Corporation is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise that historically managed the country’s rail infrastructure and services before their transfer to KiwiRail and other entities.
  • B. KiwiRail
    KiwiRail is New Zealand’s state-owned rail operator responsible for the country’s national rail network and freight and passenger rail services.
  • C. New Zealand Public Works Department
    The New Zealand Public Works Department was a former government agency responsible for designing and constructing major public infrastructure projects, including hydroelectric power stations, throughout New Zealand.
  • D. New Zealand rail network
    The New Zealand rail network is the nationwide system of railway lines and services that connects major cities, ports, and regions across New Zealand for freight and passenger transport.
  • E. Canterbury provincial railways
    Canterbury provincial railways were an early network of government-built rail lines in New Zealand’s Canterbury region that laid the foundation for later national railway routes.
  • 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: New Zealand Railways Department
Triple: [Gisborne railway station, formerOperator, New Zealand Railways Department]
Generated description
The New Zealand Railways Department was the former government agency responsible for owning, operating, and developing New Zealand’s national railway network and related transport services.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Zealand Railways Department
Target entity description: The New Zealand Railways Department was the former government agency responsible for owning, operating, and developing New Zealand’s national railway network and related transport services.
  • A. New Zealand Railways Corporation chosen
    New Zealand Railways Corporation is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise that historically managed the country’s rail infrastructure and services before their transfer to KiwiRail and other entities.
  • B. KiwiRail
    KiwiRail is New Zealand’s state-owned rail operator responsible for the country’s national rail network and freight and passenger rail services.
  • C. New Zealand Public Works Department
    The New Zealand Public Works Department was a former government agency responsible for designing and constructing major public infrastructure projects, including hydroelectric power stations, throughout New Zealand.
  • D. New Zealand rail network
    The New Zealand rail network is the nationwide system of railway lines and services that connects major cities, ports, and regions across New Zealand for freight and passenger transport.
  • E. Canterbury provincial railways
    Canterbury provincial railways were an early network of government-built rail lines in New Zealand’s Canterbury region that laid the foundation for later national railway routes.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8dd0359648190bc2a9202c5cf29d2 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d73f98dc81909acbb366f00d2d54 completed April 20, 2026, 7:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05d34e52b88190b8750049ccdf71b8 completed May 14, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05da18d7c88190bbf1ea10ce69ac98 completed May 14, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05daf96534819089fa9aedbc2c11ba completed May 14, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:02 p.m.