Triple

T10411183
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward Thomas E245392 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object Kerr, Stuart and Company
Kerr, Stuart and Company was a British locomotive manufacturing firm known for producing industrial and light railway steam engines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E862017 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: Kerr, Stuart and Company | Statement: [Edward Thomas, builder, Kerr, Stuart and Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kerr, Stuart and Company
Context triple: [Edward Thomas, builder, Kerr, Stuart and Company]
  • A. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Kendall, Milne & Co.
    Kendall, Milne & Co. was a prominent department store in Manchester, England, known locally as Kendals and regarded as one of the city’s leading retail institutions.
  • C. Strahan & Co.
    Strahan & Co. was a 19th-century British publishing firm known for issuing literary works, including novels by prominent Victorian authors.
  • D. Charles Connell and Company
    Charles Connell and Company was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding firm known for constructing large iron and steel sailing ships and steamers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. J. W. Steere & Son
    J. W. Steere & Son was a prominent American pipe organ building firm known for crafting high-quality instruments for churches and concert halls in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Kerr, Stuart and Company
Triple: [Edward Thomas, builder, Kerr, Stuart and Company]
Generated description
Kerr, Stuart and Company was a British locomotive manufacturing firm known for producing industrial and light railway steam engines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kerr, Stuart and Company
Target entity description: Kerr, Stuart and Company was a British locomotive manufacturing firm known for producing industrial and light railway steam engines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Kendall, Milne & Co.
    Kendall, Milne & Co. was a prominent department store in Manchester, England, known locally as Kendals and regarded as one of the city’s leading retail institutions.
  • C. Strahan & Co.
    Strahan & Co. was a 19th-century British publishing firm known for issuing literary works, including novels by prominent Victorian authors.
  • D. Charles Connell and Company
    Charles Connell and Company was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding firm known for constructing large iron and steel sailing ships and steamers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. J. W. Steere & Son
    J. W. Steere & Son was a prominent American pipe organ building firm known for crafting high-quality instruments for churches and concert halls in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9fc72d081908d81c71133973daf completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbfae96c8190ac496e9a1158afe4 completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d6a0188190a7ee6de5aab50486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859e40bf88190a6dc8deed3049d31 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:09 p.m.