Triple

T1581081
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS West Virginia E33762 entity
Predicate soldTo P7792 FINISHED
Object Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation
Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation was a U.S. scrap and salvage company known for purchasing and dismantling decommissioned naval vessels and other large industrial assets.
 E178683 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: Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation | Statement: [USS West Virginia, soldTo, Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation
Context triple: [USS West Virginia, soldTo, Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation]
  • A. Union Steel
    Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
  • B. Federal Steel Company
    Federal Steel Company was a major late-19th-century American steel producer that became one of the principal constituents of the newly formed United States Steel Corporation.
  • C. National Steel Company
    National Steel Company was a major early American steel producer that became part of the conglomerate later known as U.S. Steel.
  • D. Martin Marietta
    Martin Marietta was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for building rockets, spacecraft components, and other systems for U.S. military and civilian space programs.
  • E. Carborundum Company
    Carborundum Company was a prominent American manufacturer best known for pioneering the industrial production of silicon carbide abrasives and related materials.
  • 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: Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation
Triple: [USS West Virginia, soldTo, Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation]
Generated description
Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation was a U.S. scrap and salvage company known for purchasing and dismantling decommissioned naval vessels and other large industrial assets.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation
Target entity description: Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation was a U.S. scrap and salvage company known for purchasing and dismantling decommissioned naval vessels and other large industrial assets.
  • A. Union Steel
    Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
  • B. Federal Steel Company
    Federal Steel Company was a major late-19th-century American steel producer that became one of the principal constituents of the newly formed United States Steel Corporation.
  • C. National Steel Company
    National Steel Company was a major early American steel producer that became part of the conglomerate later known as U.S. Steel.
  • D. Martin Marietta
    Martin Marietta was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for building rockets, spacecraft components, and other systems for U.S. military and civilian space programs.
  • E. Carborundum Company
    Carborundum Company was a prominent American manufacturer best known for pioneering the industrial production of silicon carbide abrasives and related materials.
  • 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_69a885f27a4c8190a4622252cdf54c00 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6213b6a481908f321d1468be436d completed March 6, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad403355f4819084a560226a190b8a completed March 8, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad40e7db808190a94dd9932ea8d6c4 completed March 8, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad417c2ff48190af8e62a015b45c6b completed March 8, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.