Triple

T10412044
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Swire & Sons E245414 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Swire
John Swire was a 19th-century British merchant and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Swire business group, which grew into a major international trading and conglomerate company.
E862087 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: John Swire | Statement: [John Swire & Sons, foundedBy, John Swire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Swire
Context triple: [John Swire & Sons, foundedBy, John Swire]
  • A. Rob Swire
    Rob Swire is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the frontman of Pendulum and one half of the electronic duo Knife Party.
  • B. Sir William Collyer
    Sir William Collyer is a respectable, emotionally reserved judge in Terence Rattigan’s play *The Deep Blue Sea*, whose failed marriage to Hester Collyer highlights the constraints and repressions of postwar British society.
  • C. Sir Edward Watkin
    Sir Edward Watkin was a prominent 19th-century British railway magnate and politician known for his ambitious railway expansion schemes and early plans for a Channel Tunnel.
  • D. Frederick Leyland
    Frederick Leyland was a prominent 19th-century British shipowner and art patron, best known for commissioning James McNeill Whistler’s famous “Peacock Room.”
  • E. William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
    William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, was a British industrialist and philanthropist who co-founded the soap-manufacturing giant Lever Brothers (later Unilever) and became notable for his model villages and social welfare initiatives for workers.
  • 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: John Swire
Triple: [John Swire & Sons, foundedBy, John Swire]
Generated description
John Swire was a 19th-century British merchant and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Swire business group, which grew into a major international trading and conglomerate company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Swire
Target entity description: John Swire was a 19th-century British merchant and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Swire business group, which grew into a major international trading and conglomerate company.
  • A. Rob Swire
    Rob Swire is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the frontman of Pendulum and one half of the electronic duo Knife Party.
  • B. Sir William Collyer
    Sir William Collyer is a respectable, emotionally reserved judge in Terence Rattigan’s play *The Deep Blue Sea*, whose failed marriage to Hester Collyer highlights the constraints and repressions of postwar British society.
  • C. Sir Edward Watkin
    Sir Edward Watkin was a prominent 19th-century British railway magnate and politician known for his ambitious railway expansion schemes and early plans for a Channel Tunnel.
  • D. Frederick Leyland
    Frederick Leyland was a prominent 19th-century British shipowner and art patron, best known for commissioning James McNeill Whistler’s famous “Peacock Room.”
  • E. William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
    William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, was a British industrialist and philanthropist who co-founded the soap-manufacturing giant Lever Brothers (later Unilever) and became notable for his model villages and social welfare initiatives for workers.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9fc72d081908d81c71133973daf completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbfae96c8190ac496e9a1158afe4 completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d6a0188190a7ee6de5aab50486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859e40bf88190a6dc8deed3049d31 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:10 p.m.