Triple

T5602965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mott MacDonald E147163 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Sir M MacDonald & Partners
Sir M MacDonald & Partners was a British engineering consultancy firm that became one of the principal predecessors of the global engineering, management, and development consultancy Mott MacDonald.
E533781 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: Sir M MacDonald & Partners | Statement: [Mott MacDonald, foundedBy, Sir M MacDonald & Partners]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir M MacDonald & Partners
Context triple: [Mott MacDonald, foundedBy, Sir M MacDonald & Partners]
  • A. A. A. Binnie and Partners
    A. A. Binnie and Partners was a prominent British civil engineering consultancy known for designing major hydraulic and infrastructure projects worldwide.
  • B. Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners
    Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners was a prominent British civil engineering consultancy known for its major infrastructure and building projects in the UK and abroad.
  • C. G. Maunsell & Partners
    G. Maunsell & Partners was a prominent British civil engineering and consulting firm known for designing major infrastructure projects, including significant bridges and transport structures worldwide.
  • D. Connell Mott MacDonald
    Connell Mott MacDonald is an engineering consultancy firm known for providing structural engineering services on major projects such as the Eureka Tower in Melbourne.
  • E. Squire and Partners
    Squire and Partners is a London-based architecture and design practice known for its contemporary, high-profile residential and commercial projects in the UK and internationally.
  • 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: Sir M MacDonald & Partners
Triple: [Mott MacDonald, foundedBy, Sir M MacDonald & Partners]
Generated description
Sir M MacDonald & Partners was a British engineering consultancy firm that became one of the principal predecessors of the global engineering, management, and development consultancy Mott MacDonald.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir M MacDonald & Partners
Target entity description: Sir M MacDonald & Partners was a British engineering consultancy firm that became one of the principal predecessors of the global engineering, management, and development consultancy Mott MacDonald.
  • A. A. A. Binnie and Partners
    A. A. Binnie and Partners was a prominent British civil engineering consultancy known for designing major hydraulic and infrastructure projects worldwide.
  • B. Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners
    Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners was a prominent British civil engineering consultancy known for its major infrastructure and building projects in the UK and abroad.
  • C. G. Maunsell & Partners
    G. Maunsell & Partners was a prominent British civil engineering and consulting firm known for designing major infrastructure projects, including significant bridges and transport structures worldwide.
  • D. Connell Mott MacDonald
    Connell Mott MacDonald is an engineering consultancy firm known for providing structural engineering services on major projects such as the Eureka Tower in Melbourne.
  • E. Squire and Partners
    Squire and Partners is a London-based architecture and design practice known for its contemporary, high-profile residential and commercial projects in the UK and internationally.
  • 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_69c009043d648190a7af89698ccf1e3e completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020dce10c8190bf456602eec211d4 completed March 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0287649cc8190ae356790dd993973 completed March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0350eb53081909dc573fefa3e7f0a completed March 22, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036f0edb48190bfa74f7f2c9d9ab1 completed March 22, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:39 p.m.