Triple

T15400231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ripon Building, Chennai E368294 entity
Predicate clockManufacturer P118649 FINISHED
Object Oakes & Co., Madras
Oakes & Co., Madras was a prominent colonial-era clockmaking and watchmaking firm based in Madras (now Chennai), known for supplying high-quality public clocks and timepieces to major buildings and institutions in South India.
E1154960 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Oakes & Co., Madras | Statement: [Ripon Building, Chennai, clockManufacturer, Oakes & Co., Madras]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oakes & Co., Madras
Context triple: [Ripon Building, Chennai, clockManufacturer, Oakes & Co., Madras]
  • A. T. T. Krishnamachari & Co.
    T. T. Krishnamachari & Co. is an Indian financial and investment firm established by prominent politician and industrialist T. T. Krishnamachari.
  • B. West India Goods Store
    The West India Goods Store is a historic mercantile shop in Salem, Massachusetts, interpreting the 18th- and 19th-century trade in imported goods from the Caribbean and beyond as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
  • C. Calcutta Corporation
    Calcutta Corporation is the municipal governing body responsible for administering and managing civic infrastructure and services in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India.
  • D. Corporation of Madras
    The Corporation of Madras was the historic municipal governing body of the city of Madras (now Chennai), recognized as one of the oldest city corporations in India and the Commonwealth.
  • E. Harishchandrachi Factory
    Harishchandrachi Factory is a Marathi-language biographical film that portrays the making of India’s first full-length feature film by Dadasaheb Phalke.
  • 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: Oakes & Co., Madras
Triple: [Ripon Building, Chennai, clockManufacturer, Oakes & Co., Madras]
Generated description
Oakes & Co., Madras was a prominent colonial-era clockmaking and watchmaking firm based in Madras (now Chennai), known for supplying high-quality public clocks and timepieces to major buildings and institutions in South India.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oakes & Co., Madras
Target entity description: Oakes & Co., Madras was a prominent colonial-era clockmaking and watchmaking firm based in Madras (now Chennai), known for supplying high-quality public clocks and timepieces to major buildings and institutions in South India.
  • A. T. T. Krishnamachari & Co.
    T. T. Krishnamachari & Co. is an Indian financial and investment firm established by prominent politician and industrialist T. T. Krishnamachari.
  • B. West India Goods Store
    The West India Goods Store is a historic mercantile shop in Salem, Massachusetts, interpreting the 18th- and 19th-century trade in imported goods from the Caribbean and beyond as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
  • C. Calcutta Corporation
    Calcutta Corporation is the municipal governing body responsible for administering and managing civic infrastructure and services in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India.
  • D. Corporation of Madras
    The Corporation of Madras was the historic municipal governing body of the city of Madras (now Chennai), recognized as one of the oldest city corporations in India and the Commonwealth.
  • E. Harishchandrachi Factory
    Harishchandrachi Factory is a Marathi-language biographical film that portrays the making of India’s first full-length feature film by Dadasaheb Phalke.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: clockManufacturer
Context triple: [Ripon Building, Chennai, clockManufacturer, Oakes & Co., Madras]
  • A. watchmaking
    Indicates the action or process of designing, assembling, and adjusting watches or timekeeping mechanisms.
  • B. clockShows
    Indicates that a clock displays or presents a particular time or temporal value.
  • C. watchMovementType
    Indicates the type of mechanical or electronic movement mechanism that drives how a watch operates.
  • D. clockType
    Indicates the type or category of a clock associated with an entity (e.g., analog, digital, system clock, etc.).
  • E. watches
    Indicates that one entity observes or views another entity or event, typically by looking at it attentively over a period of time.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69d85a16c68c819099c1b547fbc87b32 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03e8d89e08190b7cae778d89fb5e1 completed April 16, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff13567e3481908eb6293c6af35f3a completed May 9, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff144af00481909191a2d33874c195 completed May 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff15ae7c9c81909fd0894e48e5b5b1 completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ded27b8cac8190bfa77698d53c5d1c completed April 14, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69ded57005608190886cd01f640dfedb completed April 15, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:19 a.m.