Triple

T5781863
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Henry Perkin E127575 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Perkin & Sons
Perkin & Sons was the chemical manufacturing company established by William Henry Perkin to commercialize his pioneering synthetic dye discoveries, including the first aniline dye, mauveine.
E547372 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: Perkin & Sons | Statement: [William Henry Perkin, founded, Perkin & Sons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Perkin & Sons
Context triple: [William Henry Perkin, founded, Perkin & Sons]
  • A. 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.
  • B. J. W. Steere & Son
    J. W. Steere & Son was a prominent American pipe organ building firm known for crafting high-quality instruments for churches and concert halls in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Atkinson-Kier Company
    Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
  • D. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
    C. Arthur Pearson Ltd was a British publishing company founded by Sir C. Arthur Pearson, best known for producing popular periodicals, magazines, and newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Perkin & Sons
Triple: [William Henry Perkin, founded, Perkin & Sons]
Generated description
Perkin & Sons was the chemical manufacturing company established by William Henry Perkin to commercialize his pioneering synthetic dye discoveries, including the first aniline dye, mauveine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Perkin & Sons
Target entity description: Perkin & Sons was the chemical manufacturing company established by William Henry Perkin to commercialize his pioneering synthetic dye discoveries, including the first aniline dye, mauveine.
  • A. 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.
  • B. J. W. Steere & Son
    J. W. Steere & Son was a prominent American pipe organ building firm known for crafting high-quality instruments for churches and concert halls in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Atkinson-Kier Company
    Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
  • D. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
    C. Arthur Pearson Ltd was a British publishing company founded by Sir C. Arthur Pearson, best known for producing popular periodicals, magazines, and newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c008361fa88190aefa4dc41b051e7f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a17315881908aa12a830ba5f22b completed March 22, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0980d833481908e69a80a63bbe256 completed March 23, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098ba92408190b61b115540fce941 completed March 23, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c099b4bc4481909e7cf6886e5ccbea completed March 23, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.