Triple

T15771976
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Traffic Bridge E382382 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object Dominion Bridge Company
Dominion Bridge Company was a major Canadian steel fabrication and construction firm known for building significant bridges and large-scale infrastructure projects across Canada.
E1175329 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: Dominion Bridge Company | Statement: [Traffic Bridge, builder, Dominion Bridge Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dominion Bridge Company
Context triple: [Traffic Bridge, builder, Dominion Bridge Company]
  • A. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • B. American Bridge Company
    American Bridge Company is a major U.S. engineering and construction firm historically known for building large-scale steel structures such as bridges and skyscrapers.
  • C. Dominion Car and Foundry
    Dominion Car and Foundry was a Canadian manufacturer of railway rolling stock and related equipment that later became part of Canadian Car and Foundry through a merger.
  • D. St. Lawrence Bridge Company
    St. Lawrence Bridge Company was a Canadian engineering and construction firm known for its role in designing and building major steel railway bridges in Quebec, including the ill-fated Quebec Bridge.
  • E. Phoenix Bridge Company
    Phoenix Bridge Company was an American bridge engineering and construction firm known for designing and building major steel truss bridges in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Dominion Bridge Company
Triple: [Traffic Bridge, builder, Dominion Bridge Company]
Generated description
Dominion Bridge Company was a major Canadian steel fabrication and construction firm known for building significant bridges and large-scale infrastructure projects across Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dominion Bridge Company
Target entity description: Dominion Bridge Company was a major Canadian steel fabrication and construction firm known for building significant bridges and large-scale infrastructure projects across Canada.
  • A. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • B. American Bridge Company
    American Bridge Company is a major U.S. engineering and construction firm historically known for building large-scale steel structures such as bridges and skyscrapers.
  • C. Dominion Car and Foundry
    Dominion Car and Foundry was a Canadian manufacturer of railway rolling stock and related equipment that later became part of Canadian Car and Foundry through a merger.
  • D. St. Lawrence Bridge Company
    St. Lawrence Bridge Company was a Canadian engineering and construction firm known for its role in designing and building major steel railway bridges in Quebec, including the ill-fated Quebec Bridge.
  • E. Phoenix Bridge Company
    Phoenix Bridge Company was an American bridge engineering and construction firm known for designing and building major steel truss bridges in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d86da09a10819082fe9797b23e4664 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e051976d248190adddd3db9f758e22 completed April 16, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff877c5ae88190aeb500bb5f0d73f7 completed May 9, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff885d33708190adb157afa7dc2e07 completed May 9, 2026, 7:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff8948cc68819085c3953226236394 completed May 9, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:47 a.m.