Triple

T15022062
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lord Brotherton E378108 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Brotherton & Co.
Brotherton & Co. was the industrial and commercial enterprise owned by Lord Brotherton, through which he built his wealth and prominence as a businessman.
E1134084 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: Brotherton & Co. | Statement: [Lord Brotherton, employer, Brotherton & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brotherton & Co.
Context triple: [Lord Brotherton, employer, Brotherton & Co.]
  • A. Richard Bentley & Son
    Richard Bentley & Son was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing notable works of Victorian literature and popular fiction.
  • B. Brewster & Co.
    Brewster & Co. was a prestigious American coachbuilding firm renowned for crafting luxurious custom bodies for high-end automobiles in the early 20th century.
  • C. Brown Brothers & Co.
    Brown Brothers & Co. was a prominent early American private banking firm that later became part of the modern financial institution Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
  • D. Henry Boot & Sons
    Henry Boot & Sons was a British construction and civil engineering firm, part of the Henry Boot group, known for major building and infrastructure projects in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • E. Clowes and Sons
    Clowes and Sons was a British printing and publishing firm known for producing scholarly and academic works in the 19th century.
  • 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: Brotherton & Co.
Triple: [Lord Brotherton, employer, Brotherton & Co.]
Generated description
Brotherton & Co. was the industrial and commercial enterprise owned by Lord Brotherton, through which he built his wealth and prominence as a businessman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brotherton & Co.
Target entity description: Brotherton & Co. was the industrial and commercial enterprise owned by Lord Brotherton, through which he built his wealth and prominence as a businessman.
  • A. Richard Bentley & Son
    Richard Bentley & Son was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing notable works of Victorian literature and popular fiction.
  • B. Brewster & Co.
    Brewster & Co. was a prestigious American coachbuilding firm renowned for crafting luxurious custom bodies for high-end automobiles in the early 20th century.
  • C. Brown Brothers & Co.
    Brown Brothers & Co. was a prominent early American private banking firm that later became part of the modern financial institution Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
  • D. Henry Boot & Sons
    Henry Boot & Sons was a British construction and civil engineering firm, part of the Henry Boot group, known for major building and infrastructure projects in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • E. Clowes and Sons
    Clowes and Sons was a British printing and publishing firm known for producing scholarly and academic works in the 19th century.
  • 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_69d85cd3a3c881908c71fc424d459c17 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded765462c819097f331c9b39c80e3 completed April 15, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe9dd2c96c8190a0368678584aaa16 completed May 9, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fea0c35b088190abf578ed016753cd completed May 9, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fea16b16b8819080b31203189f8cfe completed May 9, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:56 a.m.