Triple

T11194465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Whitworth E264884 entity
Predicate workedAt P7 FINISHED
Object Whitworth & Co.
Whitworth & Co. was the engineering and manufacturing firm founded by Sir Joseph Whitworth, renowned for its precision machine tools and contributions to standardizing screw threads in the 19th century.
 E910895 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: Whitworth & Co. | Statement: [Joseph Whitworth, workedAt, Whitworth & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whitworth & Co.
Context triple: [Joseph Whitworth, workedAt, Whitworth & Co.]
  • A. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • C. F. H. Royce & Company
    F. H. Royce & Company was an early engineering firm founded by Henry Royce that specialized in electrical and mechanical equipment before evolving into the company behind Rolls-Royce automobiles.
  • D. Henry S. King & Co.
    Henry S. King & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British banking and publishing firm known for its operations in London and colonial India.
  • E. Gray & Barton Manufacturing Company
    Gray & Barton Manufacturing Company was an earlier industrial firm that evolved into the later entity known simply as Gray & Barton.
  • 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: Whitworth & Co.
Triple: [Joseph Whitworth, workedAt, Whitworth & Co.]
Generated description
Whitworth & Co. was the engineering and manufacturing firm founded by Sir Joseph Whitworth, renowned for its precision machine tools and contributions to standardizing screw threads in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whitworth & Co.
Target entity description: Whitworth & Co. was the engineering and manufacturing firm founded by Sir Joseph Whitworth, renowned for its precision machine tools and contributions to standardizing screw threads in the 19th century.
  • A. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • C. F. H. Royce & Company
    F. H. Royce & Company was an early engineering firm founded by Henry Royce that specialized in electrical and mechanical equipment before evolving into the company behind Rolls-Royce automobiles.
  • D. Henry S. King & Co.
    Henry S. King & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British banking and publishing firm known for its operations in London and colonial India.
  • E. Gray & Barton Manufacturing Company
    Gray & Barton Manufacturing Company was an earlier industrial firm that evolved into the later entity known simply as Gray & Barton.
  • 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_69d6aa9eb9248190b20211772621b4bc completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8bf14e481908563b15790af4d20 completed April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e483f8ecf4819086f0bab3ca9ddcb4 completed April 19, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4878971cc8190aaa1fe32b32925a8 completed April 19, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4890e8ab881909c85593067041994 completed April 19, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.