Triple

T12887906
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject HMS Nubian E308276 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object John I. Thornycroft & Company E70388 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 I. Thornycroft & Company | Statement: [HMS Nubian, builder, John I. Thornycroft & Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John I. Thornycroft & Company
Context triple: [HMS Nubian, builder, John I. Thornycroft & Company]
  • A. John I. Thornycroft & Company chosen
    John I. Thornycroft & Company was a British shipbuilding firm renowned for designing and constructing naval vessels, particularly destroyers and fast attack craft, for the Royal Navy and other customers.
  • B. Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson
    Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson was a prominent British shipbuilding company on the River Tyne, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and large passenger liners in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • C. Blyth Shipbuilding Company
    Blyth Shipbuilding Company was a British shipyard based in Blyth, Northumberland, known for constructing naval and commercial vessels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William Denny and Brothers
    William Denny and Brothers was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding firm based in Dumbarton, renowned for its innovative passenger liners and technical advances in marine engineering during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Dorman Long and Co Ltd
    Dorman Long and Co Ltd was a prominent British engineering and steel company best known for designing and building major steel bridges and structures worldwide, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d7bdf7c1f0819098102569a8d8cbf5 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9714581988190afc720ffd7797860 completed April 10, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af57a8b88190a3f15a3e9e02d492 completed May 3, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:39 p.m.