Triple

T1042566
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthew Boulton E22499 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Boulton and Watt
Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
E125634 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: Boulton and Watt | Statement: [Matthew Boulton, coFounded, Boulton and Watt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boulton and Watt
Context triple: [Matthew Boulton, coFounded, Boulton and Watt]
  • A. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. James Watt Jr.
    James Watt Jr. was a British businessman and intellectual, known for managing his father James Watt’s steam engine business and participating in the scientific and industrial circles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Matthew Boulton
    Matthew Boulton was an influential 18th-century English manufacturer and industrialist, best known for his partnership with James Watt in developing and commercializing steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Richard Arkwright
    Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and entrepreneur whose development of water-powered spinning machinery and factory-based textile production made him a pivotal figure in the early Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Samuel Crompton
    Samuel Crompton was an English inventor best known for creating the spinning mule, a pivotal textile machine that greatly advanced cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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: Boulton and Watt
Triple: [Matthew Boulton, coFounded, Boulton and Watt]
Generated description
Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boulton and Watt
Target entity description: Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
  • A. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. James Watt Jr.
    James Watt Jr. was a British businessman and intellectual, known for managing his father James Watt’s steam engine business and participating in the scientific and industrial circles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Matthew Boulton
    Matthew Boulton was an influential 18th-century English manufacturer and industrialist, best known for his partnership with James Watt in developing and commercializing steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Richard Arkwright
    Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and entrepreneur whose development of water-powered spinning machinery and factory-based textile production made him a pivotal figure in the early Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Samuel Crompton
    Samuel Crompton was an English inventor best known for creating the spinning mule, a pivotal textile machine that greatly advanced cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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_69a493d91478819094cc01fb65564bc1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b845fa8c8190a7b69629883b62e2 completed March 1, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c18692c819092e1045199053a39 completed March 7, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4ca07ce88190bfbf959adc84a74e completed March 7, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac4d3f62c881908e189bfe8cbbd2ac completed March 7, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.