Triple

T1094520
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Roebuck E24241 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Carron Company
Carron Company was a prominent 18th–19th century Scottish ironworks best known for pioneering cast-iron production and manufacturing the “carronade” naval cannon.
 E125769 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: Carron Company | Statement: [John Roebuck, employer, Carron Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Carron Company
Context triple: [John Roebuck, employer, Carron Company]
  • A. Graham-Newman Corporation
    Graham-Newman Corporation was an influential mid-20th-century investment partnership known for pioneering value investing principles under Benjamin Graham’s leadership.
  • B. The Shephard/Robin Company
    The Shephard/Robin Company is a television production company best known for producing the crime drama series "The Closer."
  • C. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • D. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • E. Staley Manufacturing Company
    Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
  • 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: Carron Company
Triple: [John Roebuck, employer, Carron Company]
Generated description
Carron Company was a prominent 18th–19th century Scottish ironworks best known for pioneering cast-iron production and manufacturing the “carronade” naval cannon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Carron Company
Target entity description: Carron Company was a prominent 18th–19th century Scottish ironworks best known for pioneering cast-iron production and manufacturing the “carronade” naval cannon.
  • A. Graham-Newman Corporation
    Graham-Newman Corporation was an influential mid-20th-century investment partnership known for pioneering value investing principles under Benjamin Graham’s leadership.
  • B. The Shephard/Robin Company
    The Shephard/Robin Company is a television production company best known for producing the crime drama series "The Closer."
  • C. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • D. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • E. Staley Manufacturing Company
    Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
  • 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_69a4940542308190ac2a0b1f730b7cfc completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b99d1e8c81909cf1178d68d38885 completed March 1, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c2c6b048190b603e9562dde65d0 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.