Triple

T22807058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hill family E564564 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (reorganized into Great Northern) E524391 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (reorganized into Great Northern) | Statement: [Hill family, associatedWith, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (reorganized into Great Northern)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (reorganized into Great Northern)
Context triple: [Hill family, associatedWith, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (reorganized into Great Northern)]
  • A. Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway
    Northern Pacific Railway and Great Northern Railway were major transcontinental railroads in the northern United States that played a key role in the region’s economic development and were central to early 20th-century railroad consolidations.
  • B. Northern Pacific Railway
    The Northern Pacific Railway was a major transcontinental railroad in the northern United States that played a key role in opening and developing the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
    The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was an early 20th-century Pacific Northwest railroad line, backed by railroad magnate James J. Hill, that connected key cities along the Columbia River and facilitated regional trade and transportation.
  • D. Great Northern Railway (U.S.) chosen
    Great Northern Railway (U.S.) was a major transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest and playing a key role in the region’s economic development.
  • E. Soo Line Railroad
    The Soo Line Railroad was a major U.S. Midwestern railroad, primarily serving the upper Midwest and closely associated with Canadian Pacific Railway’s operations in the United States.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69e245823f4c8190ade442cdcc2c224a completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17d5d41dc819081912d9e29828bfb completed April 29, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b9e9dbb3881909f6fa69466bf3eff completed May 18, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:32 p.m.