Triple

T638774
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Berkshire Hathaway E16684 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Valley Falls Company
Valley Falls Company was a 19th-century New England textile manufacturing firm that became one of the key predecessors to what is now Berkshire Hathaway.
E79834 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: Valley Falls Company | Statement: [Berkshire Hathaway, foundedBy, Valley Falls Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valley Falls Company
Context triple: [Berkshire Hathaway, foundedBy, Valley Falls Company]
  • A. Darby Lumber Company
    Darby Lumber Company was a Georgia lumber manufacturer that served as the private business defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Darby, which expanded federal power under the Commerce Clause.
  • B. Northesk
    Northesk is the territorial designation associated with the Scottish peerage title Earl of Northesk, historically linked to the Carnegie family.
  • C. 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.
  • D. John Company
    John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
  • E. Mount Company
    Mount Company is a film production company best known for producing the 1988 baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
  • 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: Valley Falls Company
Triple: [Berkshire Hathaway, foundedBy, Valley Falls Company]
Generated description
Valley Falls Company was a 19th-century New England textile manufacturing firm that became one of the key predecessors to what is now Berkshire Hathaway.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valley Falls Company
Target entity description: Valley Falls Company was a 19th-century New England textile manufacturing firm that became one of the key predecessors to what is now Berkshire Hathaway.
  • A. Darby Lumber Company
    Darby Lumber Company was a Georgia lumber manufacturer that served as the private business defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Darby, which expanded federal power under the Commerce Clause.
  • B. Northesk
    Northesk is the territorial designation associated with the Scottish peerage title Earl of Northesk, historically linked to the Carnegie family.
  • C. 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.
  • D. John Company
    John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
  • E. Mount Company
    Mount Company is a film production company best known for producing the 1988 baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f00260081909d1a679182e23d10 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a574076b30819090f086b42696bb35 completed March 2, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5748d5a4c8190b4f8fcbbae972b88 completed March 2, 2026, 11:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a574fb37348190b0979dad87e79e53 completed March 2, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.