Triple

T9015153
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Getty Oil Company E215574 entity
Predicate hasSubsidiary P254 FINISHED
Object Tidewater Oil Company
Tidewater Oil Company was a major American petroleum firm known for its Tydol, Veedol, and Flying A brands before being absorbed into larger oil conglomerates.
E772794 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: Tidewater Oil Company | Statement: [Getty Oil Company, hasSubsidiary, Tidewater Oil Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tidewater Oil Company
Context triple: [Getty Oil Company, hasSubsidiary, Tidewater Oil Company]
  • A. Belridge Oil Company
    Belridge Oil Company was a major California-based petroleum firm known for developing and operating significant oil fields before being acquired by Shell Oil in the late 20th century.
  • B. Sinclair Oil Corporation
    Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum company best known for its dinosaur logo and network of gas stations and refineries across the United States.
  • C. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
    Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is an American oil pipeline company that manages and maintains the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System across Alaska.
  • D. Kerr-McGee Oil Industries
    Kerr-McGee Oil Industries was a major American energy company involved in oil and gas exploration, production, and chemical manufacturing before its acquisition by Anadarko Petroleum in 2006.
  • E. Doheny Oil Company
    Doheny Oil Company was an early 20th-century American petroleum firm established by oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, a key figure in the development of the U.S. oil industry.
  • 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: Tidewater Oil Company
Triple: [Getty Oil Company, hasSubsidiary, Tidewater Oil Company]
Generated description
Tidewater Oil Company was a major American petroleum firm known for its Tydol, Veedol, and Flying A brands before being absorbed into larger oil conglomerates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tidewater Oil Company
Target entity description: Tidewater Oil Company was a major American petroleum firm known for its Tydol, Veedol, and Flying A brands before being absorbed into larger oil conglomerates.
  • A. Belridge Oil Company
    Belridge Oil Company was a major California-based petroleum firm known for developing and operating significant oil fields before being acquired by Shell Oil in the late 20th century.
  • B. Sinclair Oil Corporation
    Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum company best known for its dinosaur logo and network of gas stations and refineries across the United States.
  • C. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
    Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is an American oil pipeline company that manages and maintains the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System across Alaska.
  • D. Kerr-McGee Oil Industries
    Kerr-McGee Oil Industries was a major American energy company involved in oil and gas exploration, production, and chemical manufacturing before its acquisition by Anadarko Petroleum in 2006.
  • E. Doheny Oil Company
    Doheny Oil Company was an early 20th-century American petroleum firm established by oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, a key figure in the development of the U.S. oil industry.
  • 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_69ca83a38aa88190bf1bb80c4548b5e2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc69fc0e4c819080b60456375f94cd completed April 1, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdba4bfd481908a5f33d39b8e7dd5 completed April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfdc5b230881908057cc868e44ea44 completed April 3, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdcfc28288190b849b3f0216a7e9a completed April 3, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:06 p.m.