Triple

T14700546
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rick Woodward E345283 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Woodward Iron Company
Woodward Iron Company was a major early 20th-century iron and steel producer based in Alabama that played a significant role in the industrial development of the Birmingham area.
E1114794 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: Woodward Iron Company | Statement: [Rick Woodward, employer, Woodward Iron Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Woodward Iron Company
Context triple: [Rick Woodward, employer, Woodward Iron Company]
  • A. Republic Iron Company
    Republic Iron Company was a historic iron mining and processing firm whose operations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula led to the naming of the community of Republic.
  • B. Republic Iron and Steel Company
    Republic Iron and Steel Company was a major early 20th-century American steel manufacturer that played a significant role in the development of the U.S. iron and steel industry.
  • C. MacIntyre Iron Works
    MacIntyre Iron Works was a historic 19th-century iron mining and smelting operation located in the Adirondack region of New York, known for its role in early American industrial development.
  • D. Homestead Steel Works
    Homestead Steel Works was a major 19th- and early 20th-century steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known as a centerpiece of Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire and the site of the 1892 Homestead Strike, a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
  • E. Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
    The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company was a major 19th-century iron and steel manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio, that played a significant role in the early American steel industry and labor history.
  • 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: Woodward Iron Company
Triple: [Rick Woodward, employer, Woodward Iron Company]
Generated description
Woodward Iron Company was a major early 20th-century iron and steel producer based in Alabama that played a significant role in the industrial development of the Birmingham area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Woodward Iron Company
Target entity description: Woodward Iron Company was a major early 20th-century iron and steel producer based in Alabama that played a significant role in the industrial development of the Birmingham area.
  • A. Republic Iron Company
    Republic Iron Company was a historic iron mining and processing firm whose operations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula led to the naming of the community of Republic.
  • B. Republic Iron and Steel Company
    Republic Iron and Steel Company was a major early 20th-century American steel manufacturer that played a significant role in the development of the U.S. iron and steel industry.
  • C. MacIntyre Iron Works
    MacIntyre Iron Works was a historic 19th-century iron mining and smelting operation located in the Adirondack region of New York, known for its role in early American industrial development.
  • D. Homestead Steel Works
    Homestead Steel Works was a major 19th- and early 20th-century steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known as a centerpiece of Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire and the site of the 1892 Homestead Strike, a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
  • E. Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
    The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company was a major 19th-century iron and steel manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio, that played a significant role in the early American steel industry and labor history.
  • 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb605f5948190ab6b20887c4b6833 completed April 14, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdf0841da48190991d5045954a32ab completed May 8, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdf1fd92948190914fe90c31ef7e15 completed May 8, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdf28897308190b1deb1ad1ef8a00c completed May 8, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.