Triple

T14998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William D. Ruckelshaus E299 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Browne & Williamson
Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
E1561 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: Browne & Williamson | Statement: [William D. Ruckelshaus, employer, Browne & Williamson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Browne & Williamson
Context triple: [William D. Ruckelshaus, employer, Browne & Williamson]
  • A. Carnegie Steel Company
    Carnegie Steel Company was a dominant late-19th-century American steel producer that played a central role in the expansion of the U.S. steel industry and the rise of modern industrial capitalism.
  • B. De Forest Radio Telephone Company
    De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
  • C. Rogers
    Rogers is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, entertainment, and sports.
  • D. Porter
    Porter is a transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves both MBTA commuter rail and Red Line subway services.
  • E. United States Steel Corporation
    United States Steel Corporation is a major American steel-producing company formed in 1901 through the consolidation of several steel businesses, becoming the world’s first billion-dollar corporation.
  • 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: Browne & Williamson
Triple: [William D. Ruckelshaus, employer, Browne & Williamson]
Generated description
Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Browne & Williamson
Target entity description: Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
  • A. Carnegie Steel Company
    Carnegie Steel Company was a dominant late-19th-century American steel producer that played a central role in the expansion of the U.S. steel industry and the rise of modern industrial capitalism.
  • B. De Forest Radio Telephone Company
    De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
  • C. Rogers
    Rogers is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, entertainment, and sports.
  • D. Porter
    Porter is a transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves both MBTA commuter rail and Red Line subway services.
  • E. United States Steel Corporation
    United States Steel Corporation is a major American steel-producing company formed in 1901 through the consolidation of several steel businesses, becoming the world’s first billion-dollar corporation.
  • 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_69a23d7ad88c8190bffe8ab091d86642 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2400257208190b3cd87ad2a06c18f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a248e572f08190b52158e063a066bf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2497d04248190a0a9037f79a932ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a249dbe1108190a2a844ba4e570fea completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.