Triple

T964880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal African Company E20815 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object RAC
RAC is the abbreviation for the Royal African Company, a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
 E113565 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: RAC | Statement: [Royal African Company, alsoKnownAs, RAC]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: RAC
Context triple: [Royal African Company, alsoKnownAs, RAC]
  • A. The RAC
    The RAC is the longtime nickname for Rutgers University’s on-campus basketball arena in Piscataway, New Jersey.
  • B. RAN
    RAN is the 3GPP working group responsible for specifying the radio access network technologies used in mobile communication systems such as LTE and 5G.
  • C. RMC
    RMC is the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Australia’s principal officer training academy for the Australian Army.
  • D. RLC
    RLC is the Royal Logistic Corps, a branch of the British Army responsible for providing logistics support including supply, transport, and distribution.
  • E. RAE
    RAE is the commonly used acronym for the Royal Spanish Academy, the official institution responsible for regulating and overseeing the Spanish language.
  • 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: RAC
Triple: [Royal African Company, alsoKnownAs, RAC]
Generated description
RAC is the abbreviation for the Royal African Company, a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: RAC
Target entity description: RAC is the abbreviation for the Royal African Company, a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • A. The RAC
    The RAC is the longtime nickname for Rutgers University’s on-campus basketball arena in Piscataway, New Jersey.
  • B. RAN
    RAN is the 3GPP working group responsible for specifying the radio access network technologies used in mobile communication systems such as LTE and 5G.
  • C. RMC
    RMC is the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Australia’s principal officer training academy for the Australian Army.
  • D. RLC
    RLC is the Royal Logistic Corps, a branch of the British Army responsible for providing logistics support including supply, transport, and distribution.
  • E. RAE
    RAE is the commonly used acronym for the Royal Spanish Academy, the official institution responsible for regulating and overseeing the Spanish language.
  • 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_69a493b33d2c81909c52c369d3ca8436 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b431d61481908b53490e99670363 completed March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac11a82bfc81908a30b19d4ecc25f1 completed March 7, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac12e7384881908211de8a4092b3c0 completed March 7, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac135f4b9c8190b45955bc9ef65608 completed March 7, 2026, noon
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.