Triple

T18314768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Myron Keck E438726 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Superior Oil Company
Superior Oil Company was a major independent American oil exploration and production firm that became one of the largest privately held oil companies in the United States before its acquisition by Mobil.
E1318562 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: Superior Oil Company | Statement: [William Myron Keck, founded, Superior Oil Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Superior Oil Company
Context triple: [William Myron Keck, founded, Superior Oil Company]
  • A. South Oil Company
    South Oil Company is a major Iraqi state-owned oil enterprise responsible for exploration, production, and development of oil fields primarily in the southern region of Iraq.
  • B. Belridge Oil Company
    Belridge Oil Company was a major California-based petroleum firm known for developing and operating significant oil fields before being acquired by Shell Oil in the late 20th century.
  • C. Union Oil
    Union Oil was a major American petroleum company, historically significant as a prominent West Coast oil producer and refiner later absorbed into Chevron.
  • D. North Oil Company
    North Oil Company is a state-owned Iraqi oil company responsible for exploration, production, and development of major oil fields in northern Iraq.
  • E. Midland Oil Company
    Midland Oil Company is an Iraqi state-owned oil enterprise responsible for exploration, production, and development of petroleum resources in central Iraq.
  • 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: Superior Oil Company
Triple: [William Myron Keck, founded, Superior Oil Company]
Generated description
Superior Oil Company was a major independent American oil exploration and production firm that became one of the largest privately held oil companies in the United States before its acquisition by Mobil.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Superior Oil Company
Target entity description: Superior Oil Company was a major independent American oil exploration and production firm that became one of the largest privately held oil companies in the United States before its acquisition by Mobil.
  • A. South Oil Company
    South Oil Company is a major Iraqi state-owned oil enterprise responsible for exploration, production, and development of oil fields primarily in the southern region of Iraq.
  • B. Belridge Oil Company
    Belridge Oil Company was a major California-based petroleum firm known for developing and operating significant oil fields before being acquired by Shell Oil in the late 20th century.
  • C. Union Oil
    Union Oil was a major American petroleum company, historically significant as a prominent West Coast oil producer and refiner later absorbed into Chevron.
  • D. North Oil Company
    North Oil Company is a state-owned Iraqi oil company responsible for exploration, production, and development of major oil fields in northern Iraq.
  • E. Midland Oil Company
    Midland Oil Company is an Iraqi state-owned oil enterprise responsible for exploration, production, and development of petroleum resources in central Iraq.
  • 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_69d8b916a2d081909e249e4902f6aad9 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5021cc70c8190bf43bd75e4af7381 completed April 19, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03c4c1d8048190916dcc7146d15bc4 completed May 13, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03c66b72a0819081fe77b42060d6de completed May 13, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03c6f191b081909a0e65fa1d553b82 completed May 13, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:36 a.m.