Triple

T16283332
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Boston E395323 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object John Roach & Sons
John Roach & Sons was a prominent 19th-century American shipbuilding firm known for constructing major U.S. Navy vessels and commercial ships.
E1203391 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: John Roach & Sons | Statement: [USS Boston, builder, John Roach & Sons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Roach & Sons
Context triple: [USS Boston, builder, John Roach & Sons]
  • A. U. Ray and Sons
    U. Ray and Sons was a prominent early 20th-century Bengali printing and publishing firm in Calcutta, known for high-quality illustrations, engravings, and literary works.
  • B. R. O’Rourke & Son
    R. O’Rourke & Son was a construction firm that became one of the founding companies of the international engineering and construction group Laing O’Rourke.
  • C. Wickersham Brothers
    The Wickersham Brothers are a mischievous group of monkeys from Dr. Seuss’s Horton stories, known for causing trouble in the Jungle of Nool.
  • D. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • E. O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
    The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th 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: John Roach & Sons
Triple: [USS Boston, builder, John Roach & Sons]
Generated description
John Roach & Sons was a prominent 19th-century American shipbuilding firm known for constructing major U.S. Navy vessels and commercial ships.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Roach & Sons
Target entity description: John Roach & Sons was a prominent 19th-century American shipbuilding firm known for constructing major U.S. Navy vessels and commercial ships.
  • A. U. Ray and Sons
    U. Ray and Sons was a prominent early 20th-century Bengali printing and publishing firm in Calcutta, known for high-quality illustrations, engravings, and literary works.
  • B. R. O’Rourke & Son
    R. O’Rourke & Son was a construction firm that became one of the founding companies of the international engineering and construction group Laing O’Rourke.
  • C. Wickersham Brothers
    The Wickersham Brothers are a mischievous group of monkeys from Dr. Seuss’s Horton stories, known for causing trouble in the Jungle of Nool.
  • D. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • E. O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
    The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th 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_69d87f22c7248190a54c949738441e2e completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e24912c5808190a0d9c9f491315068 completed April 17, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0017c6b72081908a21e5099f463b62 completed May 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a001876efb081909c0940ebcf265f15 completed May 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0018f6de84819087b8e97b0400c77d completed May 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.