Triple

T20088791
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad E496209 entity
Predicate mainLineRoute P24771 FINISHED
Object Cleveland–St. Louis
Cleveland–St. Louis was a principal intercity rail corridor in the Midwestern United States that connected Cleveland, Ohio, with St. Louis, Missouri.
E1412348 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: Cleveland–St. Louis | Statement: [New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, mainLineRoute, Cleveland–St. Louis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cleveland–St. Louis
Context triple: [New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, mainLineRoute, Cleveland–St. Louis]
  • A. Pittsburgh–St. Louis
    Pittsburgh–St. Louis refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with St. Louis, Missouri, historically used by major Midwestern and Eastern railroads.
  • B. Buffalo–Cleveland–Chicago
    Buffalo–Cleveland–Chicago refers to a major intercity rail corridor in the Great Lakes region that connected these three cities as part of a key route of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad.
  • C. Chicago–St. Louis corridor
    The Chicago–St. Louis corridor is a major Midwestern passenger rail route linking Chicago, Illinois, with St. Louis, Missouri, and serving as a key segment of Amtrak’s intercity service.
  • D. Pittsburgh–Cincinnati
    Pittsburgh–Cincinnati refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio, historically used by passenger and freight trains.
  • E. St. Louis metropolitan area
    The St. Louis metropolitan area is a bi-state urban region centered on the city of St. Louis, spanning parts of Missouri and Illinois and serving as a major Midwestern hub for culture, education, and industry.
  • 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: Cleveland–St. Louis
Triple: [New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, mainLineRoute, Cleveland–St. Louis]
Generated description
Cleveland–St. Louis was a principal intercity rail corridor in the Midwestern United States that connected Cleveland, Ohio, with St. Louis, Missouri.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cleveland–St. Louis
Target entity description: Cleveland–St. Louis was a principal intercity rail corridor in the Midwestern United States that connected Cleveland, Ohio, with St. Louis, Missouri.
  • A. Pittsburgh–St. Louis
    Pittsburgh–St. Louis refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with St. Louis, Missouri, historically used by major Midwestern and Eastern railroads.
  • B. Buffalo–Cleveland–Chicago
    Buffalo–Cleveland–Chicago refers to a major intercity rail corridor in the Great Lakes region that connected these three cities as part of a key route of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad.
  • C. Chicago–St. Louis corridor
    The Chicago–St. Louis corridor is a major Midwestern passenger rail route linking Chicago, Illinois, with St. Louis, Missouri, and serving as a key segment of Amtrak’s intercity service.
  • D. Pittsburgh–Cincinnati
    Pittsburgh–Cincinnati refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio, historically used by passenger and freight trains.
  • E. St. Louis metropolitan area
    The St. Louis metropolitan area is a bi-state urban region centered on the city of St. Louis, spanning parts of Missouri and Illinois and serving as a major Midwestern hub for culture, education, and industry.
  • 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_69da626eee3881909f3454986d4a6511 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6655d65a88190a510132f36341b6c completed April 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0827053cb4819080c2e6a6cece0dcd completed May 16, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a082b5ad1048190a1a41acf05db77d3 completed May 16, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a082b866fe08190a32d98620c176edc completed May 16, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:18 p.m.