Triple

T1589979
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Newport News Shipbuilding E34155 entity
Predicate hasAbbreviation P43 FINISHED
Object NNS
NNS is the commonly used abbreviation for Newport News Shipbuilding, a major American shipyard known for constructing U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and submarines.
 E181131 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: NNS | Statement: [Newport News Shipbuilding, hasAbbreviation, NNS]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NNS
Context triple: [Newport News Shipbuilding, hasAbbreviation, NNS]
  • A. NNSC
    NNSC is an international body established after the Korean War to monitor and supervise the implementation of the armistice agreement between North and South Korea.
  • B. NNL
    NNL is the commonly used abbreviation for the Negro National League, a pioneering professional baseball league that was a cornerstone of Negro league baseball in the early 20th century.
  • C. NS
    NS is the standard abbreviation for Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I freight railroad operating primarily in the eastern United States.
  • D. NS
    NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) is the principal Dutch railway company responsible for most passenger train services in the Netherlands.
  • E. NST
    NST is the standard time abbreviation for the Newfoundland Time Zone, which is uniquely offset by 3.5 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−3:30).
  • 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: NNS
Triple: [Newport News Shipbuilding, hasAbbreviation, NNS]
Generated description
NNS is the commonly used abbreviation for Newport News Shipbuilding, a major American shipyard known for constructing U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and submarines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NNS
Target entity description: NNS is the commonly used abbreviation for Newport News Shipbuilding, a major American shipyard known for constructing U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and submarines.
  • A. NNSC
    NNSC is an international body established after the Korean War to monitor and supervise the implementation of the armistice agreement between North and South Korea.
  • B. NNL
    NNL is the commonly used abbreviation for the Negro National League, a pioneering professional baseball league that was a cornerstone of Negro league baseball in the early 20th century.
  • C. NS
    NS is the standard abbreviation for Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I freight railroad operating primarily in the eastern United States.
  • D. NS
    NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) is the principal Dutch railway company responsible for most passenger train services in the Netherlands.
  • E. NST
    NST is the standard time abbreviation for the Newfoundland Time Zone, which is uniquely offset by 3.5 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−3:30).
  • 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_69a885fceb2c8190b47e0f7c0aefbff0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9090e251c81909ebb21a6b6262303 completed March 5, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad469eaf588190ac6db1c8fb7fa04e completed March 8, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad479c0a0c8190b2ccef1bbc7c0b1a completed March 8, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad48642590819082f4102f6b860a65 completed March 8, 2026, 9:59 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.