Triple
T16414224
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sir John Armitt |
E398640
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Laing plc
John Laing plc is a British infrastructure investment and development company known for financing, developing, and managing major public and private infrastructure projects worldwide.
|
E1211307
|
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 Laing plc | Statement: [Sir John Armitt, employer, John Laing plc]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Laing plc Context triple: [Sir John Armitt, employer, John Laing plc]
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A.
Lendlease
Lendlease is a global real estate and infrastructure company headquartered in Australia, known for developing and managing large-scale urban regeneration and retail projects.
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B.
Highland Group Holdings
Highland Group Holdings is an investment company best known for being the parent owner of the British department store chain House of Fraser.
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C.
Benfield Group
Benfield Group was a leading independent reinsurance and risk intermediary headquartered in London, known for providing specialized reinsurance brokerage and advisory services to insurers and other risk-bearing entities.
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D.
Midland Group
Midland Group is an international private investment and holding company best known in motorsport for its former ownership of the Midland F1 Racing team.
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E.
Billiton plc
Billiton plc was a major international mining and metals company that became part of BHP Billiton (now BHP Group) through a landmark merger.
- 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 Laing plc Triple: [Sir John Armitt, employer, John Laing plc]
Generated description
John Laing plc is a British infrastructure investment and development company known for financing, developing, and managing major public and private infrastructure projects worldwide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Laing plc Target entity description: John Laing plc is a British infrastructure investment and development company known for financing, developing, and managing major public and private infrastructure projects worldwide.
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A.
Lendlease
Lendlease is a global real estate and infrastructure company headquartered in Australia, known for developing and managing large-scale urban regeneration and retail projects.
-
B.
Highland Group Holdings
Highland Group Holdings is an investment company best known for being the parent owner of the British department store chain House of Fraser.
-
C.
Benfield Group
Benfield Group was a leading independent reinsurance and risk intermediary headquartered in London, known for providing specialized reinsurance brokerage and advisory services to insurers and other risk-bearing entities.
-
D.
Midland Group
Midland Group is an international private investment and holding company best known in motorsport for its former ownership of the Midland F1 Racing team.
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E.
Billiton plc
Billiton plc was a major international mining and metals company that became part of BHP Billiton (now BHP Group) through a landmark merger.
- 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_69d87f2950248190bc8ad9b9bebdc8c8 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3287683f48190975a016e6333882c |
completed | April 18, 2026, 6:45 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a003c68b7408190a9612a57f146dc30 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 8:06 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a003db7b0308190bc4b8065cf2c01ec |
completed | May 10, 2026, 8:11 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a003e86a9f48190ae39ec170c776604 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 8:15 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:09 a.m.