Triple

T8062498
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Macdonough (DD-9) E188158 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object Union Iron Works
Union Iron Works was a prominent San Francisco–based shipbuilding company known for constructing major U.S. Navy vessels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E729160 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: Union Iron Works | Statement: [USS Macdonough (DD-9), builder, Union Iron Works]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union Iron Works
Context triple: [USS Macdonough (DD-9), builder, Union Iron Works]
  • A. Newport News Shipbuilding
    Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
  • B. New York Shipbuilding Corporation
    New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
    Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipbuilding company, particularly prominent in the early to mid-20th century for constructing numerous naval and commercial vessels.
  • D. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
    Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a major American shipyard in Kearny, New Jersey, that built numerous naval vessels, particularly destroyers, for the U.S. Navy during the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. Ingalls Shipbuilding
    Ingalls Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, best known for constructing U.S. Navy warships including numerous modern destroyers and amphibious assault ships.
  • 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: Union Iron Works
Triple: [USS Macdonough (DD-9), builder, Union Iron Works]
Generated description
Union Iron Works was a prominent San Francisco–based shipbuilding company known for constructing major U.S. Navy vessels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union Iron Works
Target entity description: Union Iron Works was a prominent San Francisco–based shipbuilding company known for constructing major U.S. Navy vessels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Newport News Shipbuilding
    Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
  • B. New York Shipbuilding Corporation
    New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
  • C. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
    Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipbuilding company, particularly prominent in the early to mid-20th century for constructing numerous naval and commercial vessels.
  • D. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
    Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a major American shipyard in Kearny, New Jersey, that built numerous naval vessels, particularly destroyers, for the U.S. Navy during the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. Ingalls Shipbuilding
    Ingalls Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, best known for constructing U.S. Navy warships including numerous modern destroyers and amphibious assault ships.
  • 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_69ca82b2f68881908c50560697e210da completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3fcd7bcc8190b0a629a813846f13 completed March 31, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde6f2bf388190ad3849317659756e completed April 2, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdeb1fa7308190810b1fcc2184374a completed April 2, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdec3081d88190ad0699f9072d3fc7 completed April 2, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:26 p.m.