Triple

T6858300
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marion, Ohio, United States E158206 entity
Predicate hasHistoricCompany P14827 FINISHED
Object Marion Steam Shovel Company
Marion Steam Shovel Company was a prominent American manufacturer of steam-powered excavation and earthmoving machinery that played a key role in major early 20th-century construction and mining projects.
 E624291 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: Marion Steam Shovel Company | Statement: [Marion, Ohio, United States, hasHistoricCompany, Marion Steam Shovel Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marion Steam Shovel Company
Context triple: [Marion, Ohio, United States, hasHistoricCompany, Marion Steam Shovel Company]
  • A. Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
    Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
  • B. C. L. Best Tractor Company
    C. L. Best Tractor Company was an early 20th-century American manufacturer of agricultural and construction tractors that became a key predecessor to Caterpillar Inc.
  • C. Osborn Engineering Company
    Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
  • D. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • E. Clark Equipment Company
    Clark Equipment Company is an American industrial manufacturer historically known for producing construction machinery, material handling equipment, and components such as streetcar bodies.
  • 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: Marion Steam Shovel Company
Triple: [Marion, Ohio, United States, hasHistoricCompany, Marion Steam Shovel Company]
Generated description
Marion Steam Shovel Company was a prominent American manufacturer of steam-powered excavation and earthmoving machinery that played a key role in major early 20th-century construction and mining projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marion Steam Shovel Company
Target entity description: Marion Steam Shovel Company was a prominent American manufacturer of steam-powered excavation and earthmoving machinery that played a key role in major early 20th-century construction and mining projects.
  • A. Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
    Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
  • B. C. L. Best Tractor Company
    C. L. Best Tractor Company was an early 20th-century American manufacturer of agricultural and construction tractors that became a key predecessor to Caterpillar Inc.
  • C. Osborn Engineering Company
    Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
  • D. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • E. Clark Equipment Company
    Clark Equipment Company is an American industrial manufacturer historically known for producing construction machinery, material handling equipment, and components such as streetcar bodies.
  • 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_69c68830cdbc8190a8301c7a9d9f651a completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d8720bd48190adb446130a03d2bf completed March 27, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c72fe28dc88190a9c7794b78374ecf completed March 28, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c736684f848190a5fb1b82e152b8a5 completed March 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c736d828f88190a388d559c673861a completed March 28, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:21 p.m.