Triple

T13349613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sperry Corporation E318036 entity
Predicate acquired P2511 FINISHED
Object Ford Instrument Company
Ford Instrument Company was an American manufacturer best known for producing advanced fire-control and navigation instruments for the U.S. Navy and other military applications in the early to mid-20th century.
 E1035214 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: Ford Instrument Company | Statement: [Sperry Corporation, acquired, Ford Instrument Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ford Instrument Company
Context triple: [Sperry Corporation, acquired, Ford Instrument Company]
  • A. Delco
    Delco is the commonly used nickname for Delaware County, a suburban county located just west of Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania.
  • B. Delco
    Delco was an American automotive electronics and parts manufacturer best known for pioneering electric starting, lighting, and ignition systems for automobiles.
  • C. White Motor Company
    White Motor Company was a prominent American manufacturer best known for producing trucks, buses, and heavy-duty commercial vehicles throughout much of the 20th century.
  • D. Studebaker-Worthington
    Studebaker-Worthington was an American diversified manufacturing conglomerate formed in the 1960s through mergers involving the historic Studebaker automobile company and other industrial firms.
  • E. J. B. Ford and Company
    J. B. Ford and Company was a 19th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular literary and religious works.
  • 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: Ford Instrument Company
Triple: [Sperry Corporation, acquired, Ford Instrument Company]
Generated description
Ford Instrument Company was an American manufacturer best known for producing advanced fire-control and navigation instruments for the U.S. Navy and other military applications in the early to mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ford Instrument Company
Target entity description: Ford Instrument Company was an American manufacturer best known for producing advanced fire-control and navigation instruments for the U.S. Navy and other military applications in the early to mid-20th century.
  • A. Delco
    Delco is the commonly used nickname for Delaware County, a suburban county located just west of Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania.
  • B. Delco
    Delco was an American automotive electronics and parts manufacturer best known for pioneering electric starting, lighting, and ignition systems for automobiles.
  • C. White Motor Company
    White Motor Company was a prominent American manufacturer best known for producing trucks, buses, and heavy-duty commercial vehicles throughout much of the 20th century.
  • D. Studebaker-Worthington
    Studebaker-Worthington was an American diversified manufacturing conglomerate formed in the 1960s through mergers involving the historic Studebaker automobile company and other industrial firms.
  • E. J. B. Ford and Company
    J. B. Ford and Company was a 19th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular literary and religious works.
  • 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_69d806b5a3c08190b42c267fb092f98a completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99e8b28e48190a23194e03a74b41b completed April 11, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f71f45c9788190b60095c0d6e2f763 completed May 3, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f720bb48f081908d67d330dcfc2953 completed May 3, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f721baaf34819081113c586fae013f completed May 3, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:31 p.m.