Triple

T4853920
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George R. Brown E108487 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Brown & Root
Brown & Root is a major American engineering and construction company historically known for large-scale industrial, infrastructure, and government projects.
 E475294 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: Brown & Root | Statement: [George R. Brown, coFounded, Brown & Root]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brown & Root
Context triple: [George R. Brown, coFounded, Brown & Root]
  • A. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Roberts Construction
    Roberts Construction was the original construction company that later evolved into the major South African engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts.
  • D. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • E. Northesk
    Northesk is the territorial designation associated with the Scottish peerage title Earl of Northesk, historically linked to the Carnegie family.
  • 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: Brown & Root
Triple: [George R. Brown, coFounded, Brown & Root]
Generated description
Brown & Root is a major American engineering and construction company historically known for large-scale industrial, infrastructure, and government projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brown & Root
Target entity description: Brown & Root is a major American engineering and construction company historically known for large-scale industrial, infrastructure, and government projects.
  • A. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Roberts Construction
    Roberts Construction was the original construction company that later evolved into the major South African engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts.
  • D. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • E. Northesk
    Northesk is the territorial designation associated with the Scottish peerage title Earl of Northesk, historically linked to the Carnegie family.
  • 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d3b00fc81909bdb95eb9648c907 completed March 20, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5ce33db08190b44b5b0c21d2b850 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5f6142648190bec124c9c3933cc3 completed March 21, 2026, 9:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5ffeaff481908e2e80ddc82ac6f6 completed March 21, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.