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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.