Triple

T10237455
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Dutch Shell E243501 entity
Predicate hasSubsidiary P254 FINISHED
Object Shell Nigeria
Shell Nigeria is the Nigerian subsidiary of the global energy company Shell, involved primarily in oil and gas exploration, production, and related activities within Nigeria.
E851577 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: Shell Nigeria | Statement: [Royal Dutch Shell, hasSubsidiary, Shell Nigeria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shell Nigeria
Context triple: [Royal Dutch Shell, hasSubsidiary, Shell Nigeria]
  • A. Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited
    Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is Nigeria’s state-owned oil corporation responsible for petroleum exploration, production, refining, and marketing within the country and abroad.
  • B. Mobil Oil Nigeria
    Mobil Oil Nigeria is a major petroleum marketing and distribution company operating in Nigeria as part of the global ExxonMobil network.
  • C. Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company
    Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company is a major Nigerian oil refinery and petrochemical complex located in Warri, Delta State, involved in processing crude oil and producing various petroleum products.
  • D. Port Harcourt Refining Company
    Port Harcourt Refining Company is a major Nigerian state-owned oil refinery complex located in Port Harcourt, responsible for processing crude oil into petroleum products for domestic use and export.
  • E. Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company
    Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company is a major Nigerian oil refinery and petrochemical complex located in Kaduna, involved in processing crude oil into refined petroleum products and petrochemicals.
  • 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: Shell Nigeria
Triple: [Royal Dutch Shell, hasSubsidiary, Shell Nigeria]
Generated description
Shell Nigeria is the Nigerian subsidiary of the global energy company Shell, involved primarily in oil and gas exploration, production, and related activities within Nigeria.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shell Nigeria
Target entity description: Shell Nigeria is the Nigerian subsidiary of the global energy company Shell, involved primarily in oil and gas exploration, production, and related activities within Nigeria.
  • A. Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited
    Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is Nigeria’s state-owned oil corporation responsible for petroleum exploration, production, refining, and marketing within the country and abroad.
  • B. Mobil Oil Nigeria
    Mobil Oil Nigeria is a major petroleum marketing and distribution company operating in Nigeria as part of the global ExxonMobil network.
  • C. Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company
    Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company is a major Nigerian oil refinery and petrochemical complex located in Warri, Delta State, involved in processing crude oil and producing various petroleum products.
  • D. Port Harcourt Refining Company
    Port Harcourt Refining Company is a major Nigerian state-owned oil refinery complex located in Port Harcourt, responsible for processing crude oil into petroleum products for domestic use and export.
  • E. Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company
    Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company is a major Nigerian oil refinery and petrochemical complex located in Kaduna, involved in processing crude oil into refined petroleum products and petrochemicals.
  • 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_69d381b0f97c819085c9b45799a5fb7c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d21b64c88190b708c20ca7fe20aa completed April 7, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f76ca8848190a49d7dc76cf9dd35 completed April 9, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa2ea97081908395048218c0592b completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fcb5dc4c8190944a423a9d16a4b8 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:23 a.m.