Triple

T9594366
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject BAE Systems Naval Ships E231493 entity
Predicate formedByMergerOf P77 FINISHED
Object VT Shipbuilding
VT Shipbuilding was a major British shipbuilding company that specialized in constructing naval and commercial vessels before becoming part of BAE Systems Naval Ships through merger.
E809155 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: VT Shipbuilding | Statement: [BAE Systems Naval Ships, formedByMergerOf, VT Shipbuilding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VT Shipbuilding
Context triple: [BAE Systems Naval Ships, formedByMergerOf, VT Shipbuilding]
  • A. Vigor Shipyards
    Vigor Shipyards is a U.S.-based shipbuilding and repair company known for constructing ferries, military vessels, and commercial ships in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
  • B. United Shipbuilding Corporation
    United Shipbuilding Corporation is Russia’s largest state-owned shipbuilding holding company, overseeing numerous shipyards and design bureaus that construct naval and civilian vessels.
  • C. Wheeler Shipbuilding
    Wheeler Shipbuilding was an American boatbuilding company best known for constructing the yacht Granma, which carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956.
  • D. Todd Pacific Shipyards
    Todd Pacific Shipyards was a major American shipbuilding and repair company based in the Pacific Northwest, known for constructing and servicing commercial and military vessels.
  • E. California Shipbuilding Corporation
    California Shipbuilding Corporation was a major World War II-era American shipyard in Los Angeles that mass-produced Liberty and Victory ships for the U.S. war effort.
  • 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: VT Shipbuilding
Triple: [BAE Systems Naval Ships, formedByMergerOf, VT Shipbuilding]
Generated description
VT Shipbuilding was a major British shipbuilding company that specialized in constructing naval and commercial vessels before becoming part of BAE Systems Naval Ships through merger.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VT Shipbuilding
Target entity description: VT Shipbuilding was a major British shipbuilding company that specialized in constructing naval and commercial vessels before becoming part of BAE Systems Naval Ships through merger.
  • A. Vigor Shipyards
    Vigor Shipyards is a U.S.-based shipbuilding and repair company known for constructing ferries, military vessels, and commercial ships in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
  • B. United Shipbuilding Corporation
    United Shipbuilding Corporation is Russia’s largest state-owned shipbuilding holding company, overseeing numerous shipyards and design bureaus that construct naval and civilian vessels.
  • C. Wheeler Shipbuilding
    Wheeler Shipbuilding was an American boatbuilding company best known for constructing the yacht Granma, which carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956.
  • D. Todd Pacific Shipyards
    Todd Pacific Shipyards was a major American shipbuilding and repair company based in the Pacific Northwest, known for constructing and servicing commercial and military vessels.
  • E. California Shipbuilding Corporation
    California Shipbuilding Corporation was a major World War II-era American shipyard in Los Angeles that mass-produced Liberty and Victory ships for the U.S. war effort.
  • 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_69ca8482884481908eccdfdf64d6fbf7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9a14fd308190beb8fda5a9e912c7 completed April 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d161938e108190aea76d528f9208a2 completed April 4, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1624400b8819085b1c1a93cddc3f6 completed April 4, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d162b39c888190ae71b05ee2e132a8 completed April 4, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:07 p.m.