Triple
T14140141
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Isaac Thornycroft |
E350400
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John I. Thornycroft & Company |
E70388
|
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: John I. Thornycroft & Company | Statement: [John Isaac Thornycroft, employer, John I. Thornycroft & Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John I. Thornycroft & Company Context triple: [John Isaac Thornycroft, employer, John I. Thornycroft & Company]
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A.
John I. Thornycroft & Company
chosen
John I. Thornycroft & Company was a British shipbuilding firm renowned for designing and constructing naval vessels, particularly destroyers and fast attack craft, for the Royal Navy and other customers.
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B.
Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson
Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson was a prominent British shipbuilding company on the River Tyne, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and large passenger liners in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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C.
Blyth Shipbuilding Company
Blyth Shipbuilding Company was a British shipyard based in Blyth, Northumberland, known for constructing naval and commercial vessels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
William Denny and Brothers
William Denny and Brothers was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding firm based in Dumbarton, renowned for its innovative passenger liners and technical advances in marine engineering during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Dorman Long and Co Ltd
Dorman Long and Co Ltd was a prominent British engineering and steel company best known for designing and building major steel bridges and structures worldwide, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
- 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_69d827865f608190b311820428ae027b |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de6111a36081909beff35c88a56960 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd2802ba608190849313ff2661cd07 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 12:02 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:45 a.m.