Triple

T12315893
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ball Corporation E293597 entity
Predicate acquired P2511 FINISHED
Object Rexam PLC
Rexam PLC was a major British-based global consumer packaging company best known as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of beverage cans.
E976567 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: Rexam PLC | Statement: [Ball Corporation, acquired, Rexam PLC]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rexam PLC
Context triple: [Ball Corporation, acquired, Rexam PLC]
  • A. Browne & Williamson
    Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
  • B. British American Tobacco
    British American Tobacco is one of the world’s largest multinational tobacco companies, known for producing and marketing leading cigarette and nicotine brands across numerous global markets.
  • C. Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland
    Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland was a major early 20th-century British tobacco conglomerate that played a key role in shaping the global cigarette industry.
  • D. RELX Group
    RELX Group is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools serving professional and business customers across sectors such as science, legal, risk, and exhibitions.
  • E. Edrington Group
    Edrington Group is a Scottish spirits company best known for owning and producing premium whisky brands such as The Macallan, Highland Park, and Famous Grouse.
  • 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: Rexam PLC
Triple: [Ball Corporation, acquired, Rexam PLC]
Generated description
Rexam PLC was a major British-based global consumer packaging company best known as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of beverage cans.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rexam PLC
Target entity description: Rexam PLC was a major British-based global consumer packaging company best known as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of beverage cans.
  • A. Browne & Williamson
    Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
  • B. British American Tobacco
    British American Tobacco is one of the world’s largest multinational tobacco companies, known for producing and marketing leading cigarette and nicotine brands across numerous global markets.
  • C. Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland
    Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland was a major early 20th-century British tobacco conglomerate that played a key role in shaping the global cigarette industry.
  • D. RELX Group
    RELX Group is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools serving professional and business customers across sectors such as science, legal, risk, and exhibitions.
  • E. Edrington Group
    Edrington Group is a Scottish spirits company best known for owning and producing premium whisky brands such as The Macallan, Highland Park, and Famous Grouse.
  • 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_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f05186481909c024a933b4f6c60 completed April 10, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e86d45881909a9a3c09df0b78f1 completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f622a646c481908164ae5387625bb4 completed May 2, 2026, 4:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f623f5aa608190bce3e62e08077216 completed May 2, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.