Triple

T1799543
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject I, Robot E39682 entity
Predicate hasMainOrganization P10535 FINISHED
Object U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation
U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation is the fictional pioneering robotics company in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known for developing positronic robots governed by the Three Laws of Robotics.
E201021 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation | Statement: [I, Robot, hasMainOrganization, U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation
Context triple: [I, Robot, hasMainOrganization, U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation]
  • A. Vulcan Inc.
    Vulcan Inc. is a private company founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen that manages his business, real estate, sports, and philanthropic ventures.
  • B. Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
    Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a fictional company in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, notorious for producing irritating and malfunction-prone robots and technology.
  • C. Burroughs Corporation
    Burroughs Corporation was a major American business equipment and computer company, best known as one of the early mainframe manufacturers and a predecessor of Unisys.
  • D. The Spaceship Company
    The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
  • E. Bolt Beranek and Newman
    Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
  • 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: U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation
Triple: [I, Robot, hasMainOrganization, U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation]
Generated description
U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation is the fictional pioneering robotics company in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known for developing positronic robots governed by the Three Laws of Robotics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation
Target entity description: U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation is the fictional pioneering robotics company in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known for developing positronic robots governed by the Three Laws of Robotics.
  • A. Vulcan Inc.
    Vulcan Inc. is a private company founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen that manages his business, real estate, sports, and philanthropic ventures.
  • B. Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
    Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a fictional company in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, notorious for producing irritating and malfunction-prone robots and technology.
  • C. Burroughs Corporation
    Burroughs Corporation was a major American business equipment and computer company, best known as one of the early mainframe manufacturers and a predecessor of Unisys.
  • D. The Spaceship Company
    The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
  • E. Bolt Beranek and Newman
    Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasMainOrganization
Context triple: [I, Robot, hasMainOrganization, U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation]
  • A. hasMajorOrganization chosen
    Indicates that an entity is associated with or primarily represented by a major organization.
  • B. hasTypeOfOrganization
    Indicates that an entity is classified as belonging to a particular type or category of organization.
  • C. hasMainOrgan
    Indicates that an entity possesses a primary or principal organ that plays a central role in its biological or functional system.
  • D. hasResidentOrganization
    Indicates that an organization is based in, operates from, or maintains a primary presence within a particular place or facility.
  • E. parentOrganization
    Indicates that one organization is the higher-level or owning entity in an organizational hierarchy relative to another organization.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ab61b6ea188190aab9fb839bf1e367 completed March 6, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d8da888190a88f3bd8036e19f4 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb69c149081908b5b819c068a1ce2 completed March 8, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb8be528c819092a5e22b099fc2a0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69aa61d2f7a8819090301f92d3e358c7 completed March 6, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.