Triple
T2487237
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howard Hughes |
E55953
|
entity |
| Predicate | owned |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Hughes Tool Company
Hughes Tool Company was an American industrial firm best known for manufacturing innovative oil drilling equipment and serving as the financial foundation of Howard Hughes’s business empire.
|
E271312
|
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: Hughes Tool Company | Statement: [Howard Hughes, owned, Hughes Tool Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hughes Tool Company Context triple: [Howard Hughes, owned, Hughes Tool Company]
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A.
Starrett Corporation
Starrett Corporation is a prominent New York real estate development and construction firm known for major industrial and commercial projects in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Osborn Engineering Company
Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
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C.
Halliburton
Halliburton is a major American multinational corporation that provides products and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.
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D.
Union Steel
Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
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E.
Frank Russell Company
Frank Russell Company is a global financial services firm best known for creating and maintaining widely used stock market indexes and providing investment management and advisory services.
- 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: Hughes Tool Company Triple: [Howard Hughes, owned, Hughes Tool Company]
Generated description
Hughes Tool Company was an American industrial firm best known for manufacturing innovative oil drilling equipment and serving as the financial foundation of Howard Hughes’s business empire.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hughes Tool Company Target entity description: Hughes Tool Company was an American industrial firm best known for manufacturing innovative oil drilling equipment and serving as the financial foundation of Howard Hughes’s business empire.
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A.
Starrett Corporation
Starrett Corporation is a prominent New York real estate development and construction firm known for major industrial and commercial projects in the early to mid-20th century.
-
B.
Osborn Engineering Company
Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
-
C.
Halliburton
Halliburton is a major American multinational corporation that provides products and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.
-
D.
Union Steel
Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
-
E.
Frank Russell Company
Frank Russell Company is a global financial services firm best known for creating and maintaining widely used stock market indexes and providing investment management and advisory services.
- 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_69ab49e670a88190b928e08302381710 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd1782ca081909645164a6acf0ea0 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:19 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af17bca6f88190a63672fb3372f0be |
completed | March 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69af1b7224488190bf896b2c77c3ba0a |
completed | March 9, 2026, 7:11 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69af1c7b0f088190870b2ed18756b0d5 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 7:16 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.