Triple

T16977176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Monitor E411843 entity
Predicate shipyard P4334 FINISHED
Object Continental Iron Works
Continental Iron Works was a 19th-century Brooklyn shipbuilding and ironworks company best known for constructing the Union Navy’s pioneering Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor.
E1243605 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: Continental Iron Works | Statement: [USS Monitor, shipyard, Continental Iron Works]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Continental Iron Works
Context triple: [USS Monitor, shipyard, Continental Iron Works]
  • A. MacIntyre Iron Works
    MacIntyre Iron Works was a historic 19th-century iron mining and smelting operation located in the Adirondack region of New York, known for its role in early American industrial development.
  • B. Burden Iron Works
    Burden Iron Works was a major 19th-century iron manufacturing complex in Troy, New York, renowned for its innovative machinery and large-scale production of horseshoes and other iron products.
  • C. Woodward Iron Company
    Woodward Iron Company was a major early 20th-century iron and steel producer based in Alabama that played a significant role in the industrial development of the Birmingham area.
  • D. Homestead Steel Works
    Homestead Steel Works was a major 19th- and early 20th-century steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known as a centerpiece of Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire and the site of the 1892 Homestead Strike, a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
  • E. Republic Iron Company
    Republic Iron Company was a historic iron mining and processing firm whose operations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula led to the naming of the community of Republic.
  • 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: Continental Iron Works
Triple: [USS Monitor, shipyard, Continental Iron Works]
Generated description
Continental Iron Works was a 19th-century Brooklyn shipbuilding and ironworks company best known for constructing the Union Navy’s pioneering Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Continental Iron Works
Target entity description: Continental Iron Works was a 19th-century Brooklyn shipbuilding and ironworks company best known for constructing the Union Navy’s pioneering Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor.
  • A. MacIntyre Iron Works
    MacIntyre Iron Works was a historic 19th-century iron mining and smelting operation located in the Adirondack region of New York, known for its role in early American industrial development.
  • B. Burden Iron Works
    Burden Iron Works was a major 19th-century iron manufacturing complex in Troy, New York, renowned for its innovative machinery and large-scale production of horseshoes and other iron products.
  • C. Woodward Iron Company
    Woodward Iron Company was a major early 20th-century iron and steel producer based in Alabama that played a significant role in the industrial development of the Birmingham area.
  • D. Homestead Steel Works
    Homestead Steel Works was a major 19th- and early 20th-century steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known as a centerpiece of Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire and the site of the 1892 Homestead Strike, a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
  • E. Republic Iron Company
    Republic Iron Company was a historic iron mining and processing firm whose operations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula led to the naming of the community of Republic.
  • 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_69d886ca8f348190812768ea8d5055ce completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d184f2cc81908ac629c8f87696f8 completed April 18, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00d4755ffc8190a5c861462e33d526 completed May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d687aed88190915e20e8fa517a2b completed May 10, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d6ecbf60819095e3f8418a84d485 completed May 10, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.