Triple

T10694130
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Laing O’Rourke E252087 entity
Predicate formedByMergerOf P77 FINISHED
Object R. O’Rourke & Son
R. O’Rourke & Son was a construction firm that became one of the founding companies of the international engineering and construction group Laing O’Rourke.
E880650 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: R. O’Rourke & Son | Statement: [Laing O’Rourke, formedByMergerOf, R. O’Rourke & Son]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. O’Rourke & Son
Context triple: [Laing O’Rourke, formedByMergerOf, R. O’Rourke & Son]
  • A. U. Ray and Sons
    U. Ray and Sons was a prominent early 20th-century Bengali printing and publishing firm in Calcutta, known for high-quality illustrations, engravings, and literary works.
  • B. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • C. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • D. Charles A. Ferry & Son
    Charles A. Ferry & Son was an American architectural firm known for designing prominent early 20th-century structures, including major collegiate athletic facilities.
  • E. Sullivan & Son
    Sullivan & Son is an American sitcom that follows a corporate lawyer who leaves his big-city career to run his family's bar in a working-class Pittsburgh neighborhood.
  • 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: R. O’Rourke & Son
Triple: [Laing O’Rourke, formedByMergerOf, R. O’Rourke & Son]
Generated description
R. O’Rourke & Son was a construction firm that became one of the founding companies of the international engineering and construction group Laing O’Rourke.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. O’Rourke & Son
Target entity description: R. O’Rourke & Son was a construction firm that became one of the founding companies of the international engineering and construction group Laing O’Rourke.
  • A. U. Ray and Sons
    U. Ray and Sons was a prominent early 20th-century Bengali printing and publishing firm in Calcutta, known for high-quality illustrations, engravings, and literary works.
  • B. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • C. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • D. Charles A. Ferry & Son
    Charles A. Ferry & Son was an American architectural firm known for designing prominent early 20th-century structures, including major collegiate athletic facilities.
  • E. Sullivan & Son
    Sullivan & Son is an American sitcom that follows a corporate lawyer who leaves his big-city career to run his family's bar in a working-class Pittsburgh neighborhood.
  • 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_69d6aa5bd7c08190a816e733b4045c23 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6fd38c24c8190a105a9dfdf705b38 completed April 9, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d998cfeb748190bfff06534d83cf97 completed April 11, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d99e8534688190b312b737e0b9cd53 completed April 11, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69dadcb861a08190bb9f64a91117f35d completed April 11, 2026, 11:43 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:11 p.m.