Triple

T16530031
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred Herbert E401538 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Alfred Herbert Ltd
Alfred Herbert Ltd was a major British engineering and machine tool manufacturing company that played a significant role in the development of the UK’s industrial machinery sector in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
E158800 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: Alfred Herbert Ltd | Statement: [Alfred Herbert, founded, Alfred Herbert Ltd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Herbert Ltd
Context triple: [Alfred Herbert, founded, Alfred Herbert Ltd]
  • A. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
    C. Arthur Pearson Ltd was a British publishing company founded by Sir C. Arthur Pearson, best known for producing popular periodicals, magazines, and newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. S. H. Benson Ltd
    S. H. Benson Ltd was a prominent British advertising agency active in the early 20th century, known for pioneering modern advertising techniques.
  • C. Richard Bentley & Son
    Richard Bentley & Son was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing notable works of Victorian literature and popular fiction.
  • D. Andrew Handyside and Company
    Andrew Handyside and Company was a prominent 19th-century British ironfounding and engineering firm known for constructing bridges, aqueducts, and other major iron structures.
  • E. Henry Crown and Company
    Henry Crown and Company is a private, family-owned investment firm serving as the primary investment vehicle for the wealthy and influential Crown family of Chicago.
  • 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: Alfred Herbert Ltd
Triple: [Alfred Herbert, founded, Alfred Herbert Ltd]
Generated description
Alfred Herbert Ltd was a major British engineering and machine tool manufacturing company that played a significant role in the development of the UK’s industrial machinery sector in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Herbert Ltd
Target entity description: Alfred Herbert Ltd was a major British engineering and machine tool manufacturing company that played a significant role in the development of the UK’s industrial machinery sector in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • A. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
    C. Arthur Pearson Ltd was a British publishing company founded by Sir C. Arthur Pearson, best known for producing popular periodicals, magazines, and newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. S. H. Benson Ltd
    S. H. Benson Ltd was a prominent British advertising agency active in the early 20th century, known for pioneering modern advertising techniques.
  • C. Richard Bentley & Son
    Richard Bentley & Son was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing notable works of Victorian literature and popular fiction.
  • D. Andrew Handyside and Company chosen
    Andrew Handyside and Company was a prominent 19th-century British ironfounding and engineering firm known for constructing bridges, aqueducts, and other major iron structures.
  • E. Henry Crown and Company
    Henry Crown and Company is a private, family-owned investment firm serving as the primary investment vehicle for the wealthy and influential Crown family of Chicago.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d883838abc8190bc79cb2d41733ce2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32ed625208190a68b879266b05b3f completed April 18, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0067a913388190afebe40fcc42e731 completed May 10, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006976e8c881909036bd438baaa35e completed May 10, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a006a0ae92c8190963918628844a7ac completed May 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.