Triple
T14106500
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Robert Stephenson and Company |
E339519
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedAs |
P364
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert Stephenson & Co. |
E339519
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Robert Stephenson & Co. | Statement: [Robert Stephenson and Company, foundedAs, Robert Stephenson & Co.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Stephenson & Co. Context triple: [Robert Stephenson and Company, foundedAs, Robert Stephenson & Co.]
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A.
Robert Stephenson and Company
chosen
Robert Stephenson and Company was a pioneering 19th-century British locomotive manufacturing firm that played a key role in the early development of steam railway engines.
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B.
North British Locomotive Company
The North British Locomotive Company was a major Scottish engineering firm and one of the largest locomotive manufacturers in the world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Anglia Railways
Anglia Railways was a former British train operating company that ran passenger rail services in East Anglia following the privatisation of UK railways.
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D.
British Rail Engineering Limited
British Rail Engineering Limited was the former engineering subsidiary of British Rail, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining much of the UK’s rolling stock and railway equipment.
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E.
Sir William Arrol & Co.
Sir William Arrol & Co. was a prominent Scottish civil engineering and construction firm renowned for building major late 19th-century steel bridges and landmark structures in the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d81c69b5c8819094aa1abf18302908 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de600ada808190b92d67dc30f13d15 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcd0b48e448190b4fb8cb33e5d97e6 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 5:49 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:22 p.m.