Triple

T115429
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aden (until 1937, administratively linked) E2327 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object British India Steam Navigation Company
The British India Steam Navigation Company was a major British shipping line that operated extensive passenger and cargo services across the Indian Ocean, connecting Britain with India, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
E18522 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: British India Steam Navigation Company | Statement: [Aden (until 1937, administratively linked), usedBy, British India Steam Navigation Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British India Steam Navigation Company
Context triple: [Aden (until 1937, administratively linked), usedBy, British India Steam Navigation Company]
  • A. British East India Company
    The British East India Company was a powerful English trading corporation that dominated commerce and colonial expansion in India and Asia from the 17th to the 19th century.
  • B. Dutch East India Company
    The Dutch East India Company was a powerful 17th–18th century chartered trading corporation that dominated Dutch colonial trade in Asia and is often considered the world’s first multinational company and first issuer of stock.
  • C. Ashton Line
    The Ashton Line is a light-rail route on Greater Manchester’s Metrolink network that runs between Manchester city centre and Ashton-under-Lyne.
  • D. Muscovy Company
    The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
  • E. Dutch West India Company
    The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.
  • 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: British India Steam Navigation Company
Triple: [Aden (until 1937, administratively linked), usedBy, British India Steam Navigation Company]
Generated description
The British India Steam Navigation Company was a major British shipping line that operated extensive passenger and cargo services across the Indian Ocean, connecting Britain with India, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British India Steam Navigation Company
Target entity description: The British India Steam Navigation Company was a major British shipping line that operated extensive passenger and cargo services across the Indian Ocean, connecting Britain with India, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • A. British East India Company
    The British East India Company was a powerful English trading corporation that dominated commerce and colonial expansion in India and Asia from the 17th to the 19th century.
  • B. Dutch East India Company
    The Dutch East India Company was a powerful 17th–18th century chartered trading corporation that dominated Dutch colonial trade in Asia and is often considered the world’s first multinational company and first issuer of stock.
  • C. Ashton Line
    The Ashton Line is a light-rail route on Greater Manchester’s Metrolink network that runs between Manchester city centre and Ashton-under-Lyne.
  • D. Muscovy Company
    The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
  • E. Dutch West India Company
    The Dutch West India Company was a powerful 17th-century chartered company of the Dutch Republic that dominated Atlantic trade, including sugar, slaves, and colonial enterprises in the Americas and West Africa.
  • 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_69a2506c5428819085c28a8884790e29 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a256f1278881909dc9c17113d2cca2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2c938950081909990f481604ea022 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2c9e17ac08190abc4b4e4567e7a70 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2caa02c788190b528c55379f376a4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.