Triple
T19374908
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shell plc |
E484640
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedAs |
P364
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company | Statement: [Shell plc, foundedAs, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company Context triple: [Shell plc, foundedAs, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company]
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A.
Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij
Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij is a Dutch petroleum company best known for its role in extracting natural gas from the Groningen field, which has been linked to induced earthquakes in the region.
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B.
Royal Dutch Shell
chosen
Royal Dutch Shell is a major British-Dutch multinational oil and gas company and one of the largest energy corporations in the world.
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C.
Shell Transport and Trading Company
Shell Transport and Trading Company was a major British oil and gas enterprise that became one of the two parent companies forming the global energy giant Royal Dutch Shell.
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D.
Anglo-American Oil Company
The Anglo-American Oil Company was a British subsidiary of Standard Oil that played a major role in importing, refining, and distributing petroleum products in the United Kingdom and Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil Company is a major American oil and gas company and the U.S.-based subsidiary of the global energy conglomerate Royal Dutch Shell.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8e8d460d88190abf0591c5c9d2b0c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e61a5acc4481908fecfb57af16d037 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 12:21 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:35 p.m.