Triple

T12451775
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject UL E297548 entity
Predicate underlyingCompanyFoundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie
MergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie refers to the 1930 union of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie that created the multinational consumer goods company Unilever.
E985211 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: mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie | Statement: [UL, underlyingCompanyFoundedAs, mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie
Context triple: [UL, underlyingCompanyFoundedAs, mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie]
  • A. Northern Securities Company
    Northern Securities Company was a large early 20th-century railroad holding company formed by major financiers including J. P. Morgan, best known for being the target of a landmark antitrust case that led to its dissolution.
  • B. Bunge
    Bunge is the unicameral legislative body and main law-making institution of the United Republic of Tanzania.
  • C. Bunge
    Bunge is a surname most notably associated with Nikolai Bunge, a prominent 19th-century Russian economist and statesman.
  • D. B. H. Schröder & Co.
    B. H. Schröder & Co. was a 19th-century commercial firm, likely a trading or merchant house, that employed the young archaeologist-to-be Heinrich Schliemann during his early business career.
  • E. Sulzer Brothers
    Sulzer Brothers was a prominent Swiss engineering and manufacturing company known for its pioneering work in diesel engines and industrial machinery.
  • 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: mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie
Triple: [UL, underlyingCompanyFoundedAs, mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie]
Generated description
MergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie refers to the 1930 union of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie that created the multinational consumer goods company Unilever.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: mergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie
Target entity description: MergerOfLeverBrothersAndMargarineUnie refers to the 1930 union of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie that created the multinational consumer goods company Unilever.
  • A. Northern Securities Company
    Northern Securities Company was a large early 20th-century railroad holding company formed by major financiers including J. P. Morgan, best known for being the target of a landmark antitrust case that led to its dissolution.
  • B. Bunge
    Bunge is the unicameral legislative body and main law-making institution of the United Republic of Tanzania.
  • C. Bunge
    Bunge is a surname most notably associated with Nikolai Bunge, a prominent 19th-century Russian economist and statesman.
  • D. B. H. Schröder & Co.
    B. H. Schröder & Co. was a 19th-century commercial firm, likely a trading or merchant house, that employed the young archaeologist-to-be Heinrich Schliemann during his early business career.
  • E. Sulzer Brothers
    Sulzer Brothers was a prominent Swiss engineering and manufacturing company known for its pioneering work in diesel engines and industrial machinery.
  • 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_69d6ada166c48190b902972cd2408fa3 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d9fa5f0819080ca9f6efa212c59 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f16e87c8190b7e9f61561ae865a completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6412345ac8190826f4fecb8055fb5 completed May 2, 2026, 6:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64231606481909b8dd9d878670a6c completed May 2, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.