Triple

T17298278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company E419968 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Brodie McGhie Willcox
Brodie McGhie Willcox was a 19th-century British shipowner and businessman best known as a co-founder of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).
E1262249 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: Brodie McGhie Willcox | Statement: [Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, foundedBy, Brodie McGhie Willcox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brodie McGhie Willcox
Context triple: [Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, foundedBy, Brodie McGhie Willcox]
  • A. Alex Mackie
    Alex Mackie is a film editor known for his work on the period drama "Copying Beethoven."
  • B. Ian McNaught-Davis
    Ian McNaught-Davis was a British mountaineer and television presenter known for his pioneering climbs in the Himalayas and his popular BBC programs on climbing and computing.
  • C. Robbie McIntosh
    Robbie McIntosh is a British rock guitarist best known for his work with The Pretenders and as a touring and session musician for major artists including Paul McCartney.
  • D. Gowan McGland
    Gowan McGland is a hard-drinking, womanizing Scottish poet whose misadventures and moral failings drive the darkly comic narrative of the novel "Reuben, Reuben."
  • E. Finlay MacMillan
    Finlay MacMillan is a Scottish actor best known for playing Enoch O'Connor in the fantasy film "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."
  • 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: Brodie McGhie Willcox
Triple: [Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, foundedBy, Brodie McGhie Willcox]
Generated description
Brodie McGhie Willcox was a 19th-century British shipowner and businessman best known as a co-founder of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brodie McGhie Willcox
Target entity description: Brodie McGhie Willcox was a 19th-century British shipowner and businessman best known as a co-founder of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).
  • A. Alex Mackie
    Alex Mackie is a film editor known for his work on the period drama "Copying Beethoven."
  • B. Ian McNaught-Davis
    Ian McNaught-Davis was a British mountaineer and television presenter known for his pioneering climbs in the Himalayas and his popular BBC programs on climbing and computing.
  • C. Robbie McIntosh
    Robbie McIntosh is a British rock guitarist best known for his work with The Pretenders and as a touring and session musician for major artists including Paul McCartney.
  • D. Gowan McGland
    Gowan McGland is a hard-drinking, womanizing Scottish poet whose misadventures and moral failings drive the darkly comic narrative of the novel "Reuben, Reuben."
  • E. Finlay MacMillan
    Finlay MacMillan is a Scottish actor best known for playing Enoch O'Connor in the fantasy film "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."
  • 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_69d886db32608190a61e18862c5a8af6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e438f82788819088ea796850552297 completed April 19, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0180da5b808190857c51aaa2e85339 completed May 11, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01877483608190b311946ba05bcc94 completed May 11, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01880bad1c8190bdce946a04714ad3 completed May 11, 2026, 7:40 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:41 a.m.