Triple

T12315908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ball Corporation E293597 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company
Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer best known for producing Ball-branded glass canning jars and related glass products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E976569 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: Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company | Statement: [Ball Corporation, predecessor, Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company
Context triple: [Ball Corporation, predecessor, Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company]
  • A. Libbey Glass
    Libbey Glass is a prominent American glassware manufacturer known for producing a wide range of tableware and drinkware products for both consumer and commercial markets.
  • B. Bor Glassworks
    Bor Glassworks is a major glass manufacturing company based in the industrial town of Bor, known for producing a wide range of glass products.
  • C. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
    Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company is a major American glass and coatings manufacturer, historically known as one of the world’s leading producers of flat glass and related industrial materials.
  • D. Owens-Illinois
    Owens-Illinois is a major American glass container manufacturer historically headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, widely known for producing bottles and jars for the food and beverage industry.
  • E. Daum glassworks
    Daum glassworks is a renowned French glassmaking company celebrated for its innovative Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs and high-quality artistic glass.
  • 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: Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company
Triple: [Ball Corporation, predecessor, Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company]
Generated description
Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer best known for producing Ball-branded glass canning jars and related glass products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company
Target entity description: Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer best known for producing Ball-branded glass canning jars and related glass products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Libbey Glass
    Libbey Glass is a prominent American glassware manufacturer known for producing a wide range of tableware and drinkware products for both consumer and commercial markets.
  • B. Bor Glassworks
    Bor Glassworks is a major glass manufacturing company based in the industrial town of Bor, known for producing a wide range of glass products.
  • C. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
    Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company is a major American glass and coatings manufacturer, historically known as one of the world’s leading producers of flat glass and related industrial materials.
  • D. Owens-Illinois
    Owens-Illinois is a major American glass container manufacturer historically headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, widely known for producing bottles and jars for the food and beverage industry.
  • E. Daum glassworks
    Daum glassworks is a renowned French glassmaking company celebrated for its innovative Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs and high-quality artistic glass.
  • 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_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f05186481909c024a933b4f6c60 completed April 10, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e86d45881909a9a3c09df0b78f1 completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f622a646c481908164ae5387625bb4 completed May 2, 2026, 4:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f623f5aa608190bce3e62e08077216 completed May 2, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.