Triple

T3666403
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject M4 Sherman tank E77768 entity
Predicate manufacturer P490 FINISHED
Object Federal Machine and Welder
Federal Machine and Welder was an American industrial manufacturer that produced military equipment, including M4 Sherman tanks, during World War II.
E377234 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: Federal Machine and Welder | Statement: [M4 Sherman tank, manufacturer, Federal Machine and Welder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Federal Machine and Welder
Context triple: [M4 Sherman tank, manufacturer, Federal Machine and Welder]
  • A. Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
    Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
  • B. Union Steel
    Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
  • C. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • D. Richmond Locomotive Works
    Richmond Locomotive Works was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives based in Richmond, Virginia.
  • E. Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works
    Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives and railroad cars that later became part of the American Locomotive Company.
  • 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: Federal Machine and Welder
Triple: [M4 Sherman tank, manufacturer, Federal Machine and Welder]
Generated description
Federal Machine and Welder was an American industrial manufacturer that produced military equipment, including M4 Sherman tanks, during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Federal Machine and Welder
Target entity description: Federal Machine and Welder was an American industrial manufacturer that produced military equipment, including M4 Sherman tanks, during World War II.
  • A. Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
    Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
  • B. Union Steel
    Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
  • C. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • D. Richmond Locomotive Works
    Richmond Locomotive Works was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives based in Richmond, Virginia.
  • E. Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works
    Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives and railroad cars that later became part of the American Locomotive Company.
  • 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_69ad85dfc4dc8190a441864202ab2a7a completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc40188988190b1b7ac9c8240a5ff completed March 8, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4884bd50c8190a334e9aadc734364 completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4906d6190819086bd51f96d3ffdcc completed March 13, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4add30904819082ed6f6ee5918e57 completed March 14, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.