Triple

T3996694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Henry Doulton E87114 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Doulton & Co.
Doulton & Co. was a prominent British ceramics manufacturer renowned for its innovative stoneware and fine china, which later became part of the Royal Doulton brand.
E404354 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: Doulton & Co. | Statement: [Sir Henry Doulton, employer, Doulton & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Doulton & Co.
Context triple: [Sir Henry Doulton, employer, Doulton & Co.]
  • A. Wedgwood pottery company
    Wedgwood pottery company is a historic English ceramics manufacturer renowned for its fine earthenware and iconic jasperware, which helped set standards for industrial pottery production and design.
  • B. Henry Willis & Co.
    Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
  • C. Henry Willis & Sons
    Henry Willis & Sons is a renowned British firm of pipe organ builders, famous for constructing many of the United Kingdom’s most significant concert and church organs.
  • D. Atkinson-Kier Company
    Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
  • E. J. & P. Coats
    J. & P. Coats is a historic Scottish thread and textile manufacturing company that became one of the world’s leading producers of sewing cotton and later a core part of the Coats Group.
  • 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: Doulton & Co.
Triple: [Sir Henry Doulton, employer, Doulton & Co.]
Generated description
Doulton & Co. was a prominent British ceramics manufacturer renowned for its innovative stoneware and fine china, which later became part of the Royal Doulton brand.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Doulton & Co.
Target entity description: Doulton & Co. was a prominent British ceramics manufacturer renowned for its innovative stoneware and fine china, which later became part of the Royal Doulton brand.
  • A. Wedgwood pottery company
    Wedgwood pottery company is a historic English ceramics manufacturer renowned for its fine earthenware and iconic jasperware, which helped set standards for industrial pottery production and design.
  • B. Henry Willis & Co.
    Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
  • C. Henry Willis & Sons
    Henry Willis & Sons is a renowned British firm of pipe organ builders, famous for constructing many of the United Kingdom’s most significant concert and church organs.
  • D. Atkinson-Kier Company
    Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
  • E. J. & P. Coats
    J. & P. Coats is a historic Scottish thread and textile manufacturing company that became one of the world’s leading producers of sewing cotton and later a core part of the Coats Group.
  • 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_69aed94118148190975e6aa4e554cde9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefa228d608190b936a86c98c92ef2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5403f14ec8190a77189c7066676f2 completed March 14, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54112e3788190800e295a745c4689 completed March 14, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b541808d548190987ad1538c647664 completed March 14, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:34 p.m.