Triple

T22588996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Birchwood railway station E564885 entity
Predicate hasServiceTo P6787 FINISHED
Object Preston
Preston is a major city in Lancashire, England, known as an important regional commercial and transport hub.
 E24766 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: Preston | Statement: [Birchwood railway station, hasServiceTo, Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Preston
Context triple: [Birchwood railway station, hasServiceTo, Preston]
  • A. Preston
    Preston is a small city in Webster County, Georgia, serving as the county seat and local administrative center.
  • B. Preston
    Preston is a historic industrial city in Lancashire, England, known for its role in the Industrial Revolution and its status as a major urban center in the North West.
  • C. Preston
    Preston is a locality within the Dover District of Kent, England, known as a small rural village community.
  • D. Preston
    Preston is a suburb in Melbourne, Australia, served by its own railway station on the metropolitan train network.
  • E. Preston
    Preston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, known historically for its association with the nearby town of Prestonpans and its role in the region’s agricultural and industrial development.
  • 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: Preston
Triple: [Birchwood railway station, hasServiceTo, Preston]
Generated description
Preston is a major city in Lancashire, England, known as an important regional commercial and transport hub.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Preston
Target entity description: Preston is a major city in Lancashire, England, known as an important regional commercial and transport hub.
  • A. Preston chosen
    Preston is a historic industrial city in Lancashire, England, known for its role in the Industrial Revolution and its status as a major urban center in the North West.
  • B. Preston
    Preston is a residential area and suburb within the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside in North East England.
  • C. Preston
    Preston is a historic community and former town that now serves as one of the main neighbourhoods within the city of Cambridge, Ontario.
  • D. Preston
    Preston is a locality within the Dover District of Kent, England, known as a small rural village community.
  • E. Preston
    Preston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, known historically for its association with the nearby town of Prestonpans and its role in the region’s agricultural and industrial development.
  • 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_69e245836014819091b91ed3074742a3 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1615ea5bc8190b7760cd0de9669dd completed April 29, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b3d5a3080819098e696316ae27ec0 completed May 18, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b423c08dc819084d0acad4e16a380 completed May 18, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b42fc28fc8190a501a511cfb7c152 completed May 18, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 2:48 p.m.