Triple

T11470964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iron Ore Company of Canada E271904 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object M.A. Hanna Company
M.A. Hanna Company was a prominent American mining and industrial firm best known for its major role in the iron ore and steel industries in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
E927302 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: M.A. Hanna Company | Statement: [Iron Ore Company of Canada, foundedBy, M.A. Hanna Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: M.A. Hanna Company
Context triple: [Iron Ore Company of Canada, foundedBy, M.A. Hanna Company]
  • A. O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
    The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th century.
  • B. George H. Doran Company
    George H. Doran Company was a prominent early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors, including popular fiction and significant literary titles.
  • C. T. B. Harms Company
    T. B. Harms Company was a prominent early 20th-century American music publishing firm known for issuing popular songs and standards from the Tin Pan Alley era.
  • D. Humphrey-Weidman Company
    The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
  • E. Sprague Electric Company
    Sprague Electric Company was a major 20th-century American electronics manufacturer known for producing capacitors and other components, whose large plant in North Adams, Massachusetts later became the site of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
  • 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: M.A. Hanna Company
Triple: [Iron Ore Company of Canada, foundedBy, M.A. Hanna Company]
Generated description
M.A. Hanna Company was a prominent American mining and industrial firm best known for its major role in the iron ore and steel industries in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: M.A. Hanna Company
Target entity description: M.A. Hanna Company was a prominent American mining and industrial firm best known for its major role in the iron ore and steel industries in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • A. O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
    The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th century.
  • B. George H. Doran Company
    George H. Doran Company was a prominent early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors, including popular fiction and significant literary titles.
  • C. T. B. Harms Company
    T. B. Harms Company was a prominent early 20th-century American music publishing firm known for issuing popular songs and standards from the Tin Pan Alley era.
  • D. Humphrey-Weidman Company
    The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
  • E. Sprague Electric Company
    Sprague Electric Company was a major 20th-century American electronics manufacturer known for producing capacitors and other components, whose large plant in North Adams, Massachusetts later became the site of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
  • 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_69d6aae0c8d881908a5a360c0be3242e completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d82949e3688190b024a4980666c94f completed April 9, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5e94ea4748190b375e644b2f1a46c completed April 20, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5f15a50b881908d0930021833ae74 completed April 20, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5f88f16748190826a7fc5d27019d7 completed April 20, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.