Triple

T11986099
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SS Great Eastern E285283 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object John Scott Russell & Co.
John Scott Russell & Co. was a 19th-century British shipbuilding firm known for constructing some of the era’s largest and most innovative iron steamships.
 E958363 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: John Scott Russell & Co. | Statement: [SS Great Eastern, builder, John Scott Russell & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Scott Russell & Co.
Context triple: [SS Great Eastern, builder, John Scott Russell & Co.]
  • A. Charles L. Parsons
    Charles L. Parsons was an American chemist and longtime American Chemical Society leader recognized for his significant contributions to the chemical profession.
  • B. William Jaggard
    William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
  • C. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. William Barclay Parsons
    William Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of New York City's original subway system.
  • E. Thomas Fairbairn
    Thomas Fairbairn was a prominent 19th-century British industrialist and art patron known for his leading role in organizing major art exhibitions in Manchester.
  • 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: John Scott Russell & Co.
Triple: [SS Great Eastern, builder, John Scott Russell & Co.]
Generated description
John Scott Russell & Co. was a 19th-century British shipbuilding firm known for constructing some of the era’s largest and most innovative iron steamships.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Scott Russell & Co.
Target entity description: John Scott Russell & Co. was a 19th-century British shipbuilding firm known for constructing some of the era’s largest and most innovative iron steamships.
  • A. Charles L. Parsons
    Charles L. Parsons was an American chemist and longtime American Chemical Society leader recognized for his significant contributions to the chemical profession.
  • B. William Jaggard
    William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
  • C. Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. William Barclay Parsons
    William Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of New York City's original subway system.
  • E. Thomas Fairbairn
    Thomas Fairbairn was a prominent 19th-century British industrialist and art patron known for his leading role in organizing major art exhibitions in Manchester.
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903acbb9081908fe7f8360057785c completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f47237c23081909044388ff5dc73b3 completed May 1, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47b7c5af08190ab0bff1232530a0c completed May 1, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47dd51e648190bddd41766221e22d completed May 1, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.