Triple

T15994174
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hudson Maxim E387918 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Maxim Powder Company
Maxim Powder Company was an explosives manufacturing firm associated with inventor and chemist Hudson Maxim, known for its work in gunpowder and munitions.
E1188467 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: Maxim Powder Company | Statement: [Hudson Maxim, employer, Maxim Powder Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxim Powder Company
Context triple: [Hudson Maxim, employer, Maxim Powder Company]
  • A. Hercules Powder Company
    Hercules Powder Company was an American explosives and chemical manufacturing firm that became a major producer of industrial and military propellants and later evolved into the diversified chemical company Hercules Inc.
  • B. King Powder Company
    King Powder Company was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century explosives manufacturer whose operations played a central role in the industrial and community development of Kings Mills, Ohio.
  • C. Peters Cartridge Company
    Peters Cartridge Company is a historic former ammunition manufacturing complex in Kings Mills, Ohio, known for its significant role in U.S. munitions production during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Scovill Manufacturing Company
    Scovill Manufacturing Company was a prominent American brass and metalworks manufacturer based in Waterbury, Connecticut, known for producing buttons, brass goods, and later photographic equipment and consumer products.
  • E. Federal Cartridge Company
    Federal Cartridge Company is a prominent American manufacturer of ammunition and related shooting products for sporting, law enforcement, and military markets.
  • 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: Maxim Powder Company
Triple: [Hudson Maxim, employer, Maxim Powder Company]
Generated description
Maxim Powder Company was an explosives manufacturing firm associated with inventor and chemist Hudson Maxim, known for its work in gunpowder and munitions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxim Powder Company
Target entity description: Maxim Powder Company was an explosives manufacturing firm associated with inventor and chemist Hudson Maxim, known for its work in gunpowder and munitions.
  • A. Hercules Powder Company
    Hercules Powder Company was an American explosives and chemical manufacturing firm that became a major producer of industrial and military propellants and later evolved into the diversified chemical company Hercules Inc.
  • B. King Powder Company
    King Powder Company was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century explosives manufacturer whose operations played a central role in the industrial and community development of Kings Mills, Ohio.
  • C. Peters Cartridge Company
    Peters Cartridge Company is a historic former ammunition manufacturing complex in Kings Mills, Ohio, known for its significant role in U.S. munitions production during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Scovill Manufacturing Company
    Scovill Manufacturing Company was a prominent American brass and metalworks manufacturer based in Waterbury, Connecticut, known for producing buttons, brass goods, and later photographic equipment and consumer products.
  • E. Federal Cartridge Company
    Federal Cartridge Company is a prominent American manufacturer of ammunition and related shooting products for sporting, law enforcement, and military markets.
  • 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_69d86daa562c81908aacc179c0fe8fb5 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e15785fad48190af0556e7ddfd29c5 completed April 16, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffc3d5d72081908aa235c5ad9b5707 completed May 9, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffc5444c1c8190854de5575b9ec1c5 completed May 9, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffc5b95290819098b28c44c22b2799 completed May 9, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:55 a.m.