Triple

T19601492
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dunkirk locomotive works E470486 entity
Predicate historicalEra P200 FINISHED
Object Age of steam locomotives
The Age of steam locomotives was the historical period when steam-powered railway engines dominated rail transport and drove major industrial and economic expansion worldwide.
E755419 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: Age of steam locomotives | Statement: [Dunkirk locomotive works, historicalEra, Age of steam locomotives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Age of steam locomotives
Context triple: [Dunkirk locomotive works, historicalEra, Age of steam locomotives]
  • A. Cab-forward steam locomotives
    Cab-forward steam locomotives were a distinctive type of steam engine with the crew cab placed at the front of the locomotive to improve visibility and reduce smoke exposure, most famously used by the Southern Pacific Railroad in mountainous terrain.
  • B. Age of steam and sail
    The Age of Steam and Sail was a transitional maritime era in the 19th century when traditional sailing ships coexisted and gradually gave way to steam-powered vessels, reshaping global naval warfare and commerce.
  • C. Lion steam locomotive
    The Lion steam locomotive is a preserved early 19th-century British steam engine famed for its role in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and as one of the oldest surviving working locomotives.
  • D. Locomotive
    Locomotive is the nickname of El Paso Locomotive FC, a professional soccer club based in El Paso, Texas, that competes in the USL Championship.
  • E. Nez Cassé locomotives
    Nez Cassé locomotives are a distinctive series of French electric and diesel-electric locomotives recognizable by their angular “broken nose” cab design, widely used by SNCF from the 1960s onward.
  • 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: Age of steam locomotives
Triple: [Dunkirk locomotive works, historicalEra, Age of steam locomotives]
Generated description
The Age of steam locomotives was the historical period when steam-powered railway engines dominated rail transport and drove major industrial and economic expansion worldwide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Age of steam locomotives
Target entity description: The Age of steam locomotives was the historical period when steam-powered railway engines dominated rail transport and drove major industrial and economic expansion worldwide.
  • A. Cab-forward steam locomotives
    Cab-forward steam locomotives were a distinctive type of steam engine with the crew cab placed at the front of the locomotive to improve visibility and reduce smoke exposure, most famously used by the Southern Pacific Railroad in mountainous terrain.
  • B. Age of steam and sail chosen
    The Age of Steam and Sail was a transitional maritime era in the 19th century when traditional sailing ships coexisted and gradually gave way to steam-powered vessels, reshaping global naval warfare and commerce.
  • C. Lion steam locomotive
    The Lion steam locomotive is a preserved early 19th-century British steam engine famed for its role in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and as one of the oldest surviving working locomotives.
  • D. Locomotive
    Locomotive is the nickname of El Paso Locomotive FC, a professional soccer club based in El Paso, Texas, that competes in the USL Championship.
  • E. Nez Cassé locomotives
    Nez Cassé locomotives are a distinctive series of French electric and diesel-electric locomotives recognizable by their angular “broken nose” cab design, widely used by SNCF from the 1960s onward.
  • 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_69d8e510024481908415c0d616fa6186 completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6407f1fd88190aa82c4c96f755584 completed April 20, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a075f1dc2f48190a66d0145b39f06a3 completed May 15, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a075fbe27a081909c6869abfdfb6079 completed May 15, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07608dfcb481908833ecb65c10b96b completed May 15, 2026, 6:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:43 p.m.