Triple
T23347754
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Pigott Sr. |
E591914
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pacific Car and Foundry Company |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Pacific Car and Foundry Company | Statement: [William Pigott Sr., founded, Pacific Car and Foundry Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Car and Foundry Company Context triple: [William Pigott Sr., founded, Pacific Car and Foundry Company]
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A.
Pacific Car and Foundry
chosen
Pacific Car and Foundry was an American industrial company best known for manufacturing heavy equipment and military vehicles, and later for producing Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks under the name PACCAR Inc.
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B.
Compañía de Acero del Pacífico
Compañía de Acero del Pacífico is a major Chilean steel company based in the Biobío Region and one of the country’s principal industrial producers of steel and related products.
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C.
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Republic Iron and Steel Company was a major early 20th-century American steel manufacturer that played a significant role in the development of the U.S. iron and steel industry.
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D.
Oregon Iron Works
Oregon Iron Works is an American manufacturing company known for producing complex metal and transportation structures, including streetcars, boats, and industrial components.
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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.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e25d20e3d08190bcede87673cafb25 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1983840a481908c503e47ef2158e3 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 5:33 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:19 p.m.