Triple

T10566884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benjamin Baker E249372 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Sir John Fowler & Co.
Sir John Fowler & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineering firm known for major railway and bridge projects.
E872897 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: Sir John Fowler & Co. | Statement: [Benjamin Baker, employer, Sir John Fowler & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Fowler & Co.
Context triple: [Benjamin Baker, employer, Sir John Fowler & Co.]
  • A. Sir William Arrol & Co.
    Sir William Arrol & Co. was a prominent Scottish civil engineering and construction firm renowned for building major late 19th-century steel bridges and landmark structures in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Clowes and Sons
    Clowes and Sons was a British printing and publishing firm known for producing scholarly and academic works in the 19th century.
  • C. Henry Boot & Sons
    Henry Boot & Sons was a British construction and civil engineering firm, part of the Henry Boot group, known for major building and infrastructure projects in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • D. Henry Willis & Sons
    Henry Willis & Sons is a renowned British firm of pipe organ builders, famous for constructing many of the United Kingdom’s most significant concert and church organs.
  • E. John Ballantyne and Co.
    John Ballantyne and Co. was an early 19th-century Edinburgh publishing firm known for issuing major literary works, including those of Sir Walter Scott.
  • 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: Sir John Fowler & Co.
Triple: [Benjamin Baker, employer, Sir John Fowler & Co.]
Generated description
Sir John Fowler & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineering firm known for major railway and bridge projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir John Fowler & Co.
Target entity description: Sir John Fowler & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineering firm known for major railway and bridge projects.
  • A. Sir William Arrol & Co.
    Sir William Arrol & Co. was a prominent Scottish civil engineering and construction firm renowned for building major late 19th-century steel bridges and landmark structures in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Clowes and Sons
    Clowes and Sons was a British printing and publishing firm known for producing scholarly and academic works in the 19th century.
  • C. Henry Boot & Sons
    Henry Boot & Sons was a British construction and civil engineering firm, part of the Henry Boot group, known for major building and infrastructure projects in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • D. Henry Willis & Sons
    Henry Willis & Sons is a renowned British firm of pipe organ builders, famous for constructing many of the United Kingdom’s most significant concert and church organs.
  • E. John Ballantyne and Co.
    John Ballantyne and Co. was an early 19th-century Edinburgh publishing firm known for issuing major literary works, including those of Sir Walter Scott.
  • 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_69d381c8bd708190acf3d275c908251e completed April 6, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5272ef5848190b76d671ea2d26314 completed April 7, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d94b42879481909f9c98b2579c10a1 completed April 10, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d94d67e16481908efb939a3e65004c completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d95227a1f48190ab847606a9ae0500 completed April 10, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:36 p.m.