Triple

T9654873
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Division of Labour in Society E233423 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object Alcan
Alcan is a French publishing house known for issuing significant academic and sociological works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 E812438 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: Alcan | Statement: [The Division of Labour in Society, publisher, Alcan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alcan
Context triple: [The Division of Labour in Society, publisher, Alcan]
  • A. Kaiser Aluminum
    Kaiser Aluminum is an American industrial company specializing in the production of fabricated aluminum products for aerospace, automotive, and other high-performance applications.
  • B. Alcoa
    Alcoa is a major American industrial corporation known primarily for its global production of aluminum and related engineered products.
  • C. Alcoa
    Alcoa is a small industrial city in Blount County, Tennessee, historically centered around aluminum production and part of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
  • D. Stelco
    Stelco is a major Canadian steel manufacturing company historically central to the industrial and economic identity of Hamilton, Ontario.
  • E. Mitsubishi Aluminum
    Mitsubishi Aluminum is a Mitsubishi Group company specializing in the production and processing of aluminum materials and related products.
  • 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: Alcan
Triple: [The Division of Labour in Society, publisher, Alcan]
Generated description
Alcan is a French publishing house known for issuing significant academic and sociological works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alcan
Target entity description: Alcan is a French publishing house known for issuing significant academic and sociological works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Kaiser Aluminum
    Kaiser Aluminum is an American industrial company specializing in the production of fabricated aluminum products for aerospace, automotive, and other high-performance applications.
  • B. Alcoa
    Alcoa is a major American industrial corporation known primarily for its global production of aluminum and related engineered products.
  • C. Alcoa
    Alcoa is a small industrial city in Blount County, Tennessee, historically centered around aluminum production and part of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
  • D. Stelco
    Stelco is a major Canadian steel manufacturing company historically central to the industrial and economic identity of Hamilton, Ontario.
  • E. Mitsubishi Aluminum
    Mitsubishi Aluminum is a Mitsubishi Group company specializing in the production and processing of aluminum materials and related products.
  • 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_69ca848c1ba88190b84b410cd14627fc completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9bda8e7881908b0e36b91a8d3891 completed April 1, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18270dee481909c8d2de1fafdaf5b completed April 4, 2026, 9:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18324756c819089eb7edc107ed8b2 completed April 4, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1856b88908190a787765e1d8f001f completed April 4, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:13 p.m.