Triple

T9623993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Centrica E232411 entity
Predicate hasMajorBrand P40804 FINISHED
Object British Gas
British Gas is a leading UK energy and home services company, best known as a major supplier of gas and electricity to residential customers.
E232411 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: British Gas | Statement: [Centrica, hasMajorBrand, British Gas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Gas
Context triple: [Centrica, hasMajorBrand, British Gas]
  • A. British Gas Corporation
    British Gas Corporation was the state-owned national gas utility in the United Kingdom, responsible for the production, distribution, and supply of gas before its privatization and breakup in the 1980s.
  • B. National Grid Gas plc
    National Grid Gas plc is a UK-based company responsible for owning and operating the high-pressure gas transmission network in Great Britain.
  • C. Centrica
    Centrica is a British multinational energy and services company best known as the owner of British Gas and a major supplier of gas and electricity in the UK and Ireland.
  • D. United Utilities
    United Utilities is a major British water and wastewater services company responsible for supplying and managing water infrastructure across North West England.
  • E. Scottish and Southern Energy plc
    Scottish and Southern Energy plc is a major UK-based energy company involved in the generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity and gas, as well as related energy services.
  • 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: British Gas
Triple: [Centrica, hasMajorBrand, British Gas]
Generated description
British Gas is a leading UK energy and home services company, best known as a major supplier of gas and electricity to residential customers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Gas
Target entity description: British Gas is a leading UK energy and home services company, best known as a major supplier of gas and electricity to residential customers.
  • A. British Gas Corporation
    British Gas Corporation was the state-owned national gas utility in the United Kingdom, responsible for the production, distribution, and supply of gas before its privatization and breakup in the 1980s.
  • B. National Grid Gas plc
    National Grid Gas plc is a UK-based company responsible for owning and operating the high-pressure gas transmission network in Great Britain.
  • C. Centrica chosen
    Centrica is a British multinational energy and services company best known as the owner of British Gas and a major supplier of gas and electricity in the UK and Ireland.
  • D. United Utilities
    United Utilities is a major British water and wastewater services company responsible for supplying and managing water infrastructure across North West England.
  • E. Scottish and Southern Energy plc
    Scottish and Southern Energy plc is a major UK-based energy company involved in the generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity and gas, as well as related energy services.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca848793ec8190a93a12383a754dc0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9ad76b148190a38fadee06594db4 completed April 1, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f66dba08190bf8b76cf7a248746 completed April 4, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1a1c0a35c8190866c0601d9923679 completed April 4, 2026, 11:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1a1fed244819082dae7de270a528e completed April 4, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:10 p.m.