Triple

T13386173
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Woburn toxic waste contamination cases E319450 entity
Predicate involves P1256 FINISHED
Object Beatrice Foods
Beatrice Foods was a major American food processing and distribution company that became widely known for its involvement in the Woburn, Massachusetts toxic waste contamination case depicted in the book and film "A Civil Action."
E1037139 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: Beatrice Foods | Statement: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, involves, Beatrice Foods]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beatrice Foods
Context triple: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, involves, Beatrice Foods]
  • A. Quaker Farms
    Quaker Farms is a small village and residential community within the town of Oxford in western New Haven County, Connecticut.
  • B. Wayne Foods
    Wayne Foods is a fictional food production company operating as a subsidiary within Bruce Wayne’s Wayne Enterprises conglomerate in the DC Comics universe.
  • C. Champion Foods
    Champion Foods is a food manufacturing and distribution company owned by Ilitch Holdings, known for producing private-label and branded food products, particularly in the pizza and snack categories.
  • D. Casella Family Brands
    Casella Family Brands is a major Australian wine company best known globally for producing the Yellow Tail brand.
  • E. Pacific Foods
    Pacific Foods is a natural and organic food brand known for its soups, broths, and plant-based beverages.
  • 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: Beatrice Foods
Triple: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, involves, Beatrice Foods]
Generated description
Beatrice Foods was a major American food processing and distribution company that became widely known for its involvement in the Woburn, Massachusetts toxic waste contamination case depicted in the book and film "A Civil Action."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beatrice Foods
Target entity description: Beatrice Foods was a major American food processing and distribution company that became widely known for its involvement in the Woburn, Massachusetts toxic waste contamination case depicted in the book and film "A Civil Action."
  • A. Quaker Farms
    Quaker Farms is a small village and residential community within the town of Oxford in western New Haven County, Connecticut.
  • B. Wayne Foods
    Wayne Foods is a fictional food production company operating as a subsidiary within Bruce Wayne’s Wayne Enterprises conglomerate in the DC Comics universe.
  • C. Champion Foods
    Champion Foods is a food manufacturing and distribution company owned by Ilitch Holdings, known for producing private-label and branded food products, particularly in the pizza and snack categories.
  • D. Casella Family Brands
    Casella Family Brands is a major Australian wine company best known globally for producing the Yellow Tail brand.
  • E. Pacific Foods
    Pacific Foods is a natural and organic food brand known for its soups, broths, and plant-based beverages.
  • 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_69d806b886bc8190b676e7768b8e01c5 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dadce96d1881909957fdd068a7f55d completed April 11, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7268f9a908190843481dd313f5a11 completed May 3, 2026, 10:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7272115f4819092e4fa0fd7f130b5 completed May 3, 2026, 10:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f72992483c8190873ba7050ad9e6fa completed May 3, 2026, 10:55 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:34 p.m.