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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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A.
watchmaking
Indicates the action or process of designing, assembling, and adjusting watches or timekeeping mechanisms.
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B.
clockShows
Indicates that a clock displays or presents a particular time or temporal value.
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C.
watchMovementType
Indicates the type of mechanical or electronic movement mechanism that drives how a watch operates.
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D.
clockType
Indicates the type or category of a clock associated with an entity (e.g., analog, digital, system clock, etc.).
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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.