Triple

T10801493
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aon plc E254847 entity
Predicate acquired P2511 FINISHED
Object Hewitt Associates
Hewitt Associates was a global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm known for its expertise in benefits, talent, and compensation management.
E886510 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: Hewitt Associates | Statement: [Aon plc, acquired, Hewitt Associates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hewitt Associates
Context triple: [Aon plc, acquired, Hewitt Associates]
  • A. Bennetts Associates
    Bennetts Associates is a British architectural practice known for its innovative and sustainable designs for major cultural and public buildings.
  • B. Parish-Hadley Associates
    Parish-Hadley Associates was a highly influential American interior design firm renowned for shaping 20th-century high-society and traditional interior aesthetics.
  • C. Adamson Associates
    Adamson Associates is an international architecture and design firm known for its work on major commercial and mixed-use developments, including prominent skyscrapers and urban landmarks.
  • D. Drew Associates
    Drew Associates was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for helping to establish the Direct Cinema movement in the 1960s through its innovative, observational style of filmmaking.
  • E. Odell Associates
    Odell Associates is an American architecture firm known for designing major sports and entertainment venues, including the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • 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: Hewitt Associates
Triple: [Aon plc, acquired, Hewitt Associates]
Generated description
Hewitt Associates was a global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm known for its expertise in benefits, talent, and compensation management.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hewitt Associates
Target entity description: Hewitt Associates was a global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm known for its expertise in benefits, talent, and compensation management.
  • A. Bennetts Associates
    Bennetts Associates is a British architectural practice known for its innovative and sustainable designs for major cultural and public buildings.
  • B. Parish-Hadley Associates
    Parish-Hadley Associates was a highly influential American interior design firm renowned for shaping 20th-century high-society and traditional interior aesthetics.
  • C. Adamson Associates
    Adamson Associates is an international architecture and design firm known for its work on major commercial and mixed-use developments, including prominent skyscrapers and urban landmarks.
  • D. Drew Associates
    Drew Associates was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for helping to establish the Direct Cinema movement in the 1960s through its innovative, observational style of filmmaking.
  • E. Odell Associates
    Odell Associates is an American architecture firm known for designing major sports and entertainment venues, including the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7336dedec819099bd302c5d213dba completed April 9, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de566e7d408190946864e28c294075 completed April 14, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de5eaf3cc08190935cb6ddf2020166 completed April 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de63a902f4819089845bc6d7469c6b completed April 14, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.