Triple

T11249161
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sea of Thieves E266282 entity
Predicate hasFaction P25766 FINISHED
Object Merchant Alliance
The Merchant Alliance is a trading company faction in the game Sea of Thieves that tasks players with transporting and delivering valuable cargo across the seas.
E914147 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: Merchant Alliance | Statement: [Sea of Thieves, hasFaction, Merchant Alliance]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merchant Alliance
Context triple: [Sea of Thieves, hasFaction, Merchant Alliance]
  • A. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • B. Shoptalk Systems
    Shoptalk Systems is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the Liberty BASIC programming language.
  • C. Xoom Corporation
    Xoom Corporation is a digital money transfer service that enables individuals to send funds, pay bills, and reload mobile phones internationally, and operates as a subsidiary of PayPal.
  • D. International Digital Commerce Group
    International Digital Commerce Group is Alibaba Group’s global e-commerce division focused on operating and expanding its international online retail and wholesale platforms.
  • E. Vertical Alliance
    Vertical Alliance was an ancient Chinese diplomatic strategy that sought to unite the weaker northern states against the dominant Qin during the Warring States period.
  • 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: Merchant Alliance
Triple: [Sea of Thieves, hasFaction, Merchant Alliance]
Generated description
The Merchant Alliance is a trading company faction in the game Sea of Thieves that tasks players with transporting and delivering valuable cargo across the seas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merchant Alliance
Target entity description: The Merchant Alliance is a trading company faction in the game Sea of Thieves that tasks players with transporting and delivering valuable cargo across the seas.
  • A. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • B. Shoptalk Systems
    Shoptalk Systems is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the Liberty BASIC programming language.
  • C. Xoom Corporation
    Xoom Corporation is a digital money transfer service that enables individuals to send funds, pay bills, and reload mobile phones internationally, and operates as a subsidiary of PayPal.
  • D. International Digital Commerce Group
    International Digital Commerce Group is Alibaba Group’s global e-commerce division focused on operating and expanding its international online retail and wholesale platforms.
  • E. Vertical Alliance
    Vertical Alliance was an ancient Chinese diplomatic strategy that sought to unite the weaker northern states against the dominant Qin during the Warring States period.
  • 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e91d1484819098ee6b2efb5316a5 completed April 9, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4cc76b10c8190962b21c4cad6ce8f completed April 19, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4d9eb79608190b7ed108906f4e2bf completed April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4df50eebc8190a4fe0aba7dc9fa62 completed April 19, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.