Triple

T1597126
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dorchester Company fishing outpost E34308 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Dorchester Company
Dorchester Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company involved in early colonial ventures, particularly in New England.
E183258 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: Dorchester Company | Statement: [Dorchester Company fishing outpost, foundedBy, Dorchester Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorchester Company
Context triple: [Dorchester Company fishing outpost, foundedBy, Dorchester Company]
  • A. Essex Company
    Essex Company was a 19th-century industrial enterprise that developed the planned mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, by harnessing water power for large-scale textile manufacturing.
  • B. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • C. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • D. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • E. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • 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: Dorchester Company
Triple: [Dorchester Company fishing outpost, foundedBy, Dorchester Company]
Generated description
Dorchester Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company involved in early colonial ventures, particularly in New England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorchester Company
Target entity description: Dorchester Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company involved in early colonial ventures, particularly in New England.
  • A. Essex Company
    Essex Company was a 19th-century industrial enterprise that developed the planned mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, by harnessing water power for large-scale textile manufacturing.
  • B. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • C. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • D. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • E. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • 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_69a885fdcb9c819081ce6f0b8cd477dd completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9092e46748190b27be7d1aba07dff completed March 5, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad51b9c6588190810ede38d9e714e2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad52d3e4e881908b107f02cd674321 completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad5376fdac819084fa606fc670d531 completed March 8, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.