Triple

T20917954
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dennis Washington E515124 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Washington Companies
Washington Companies is a privately held Montana-based conglomerate with diversified interests in industries such as construction, mining, rail transportation, and marine services.
E1457708 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: Washington Companies | Statement: [Dennis Washington, founded, Washington Companies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington Companies
Context triple: [Dennis Washington, founded, Washington Companies]
  • A. South West Company
    South West Company was a 19th-century American fur trading enterprise established by prominent merchant and fur magnate John Jacob Astor.
  • B. Canada Company
    Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
  • C. Washington Water Power Company
    Washington Water Power Company is a historic electric utility based in Spokane, Washington, known for developing hydroelectric power projects in the Pacific Northwest.
  • D. Alaska Native regional corporations
    Alaska Native regional corporations are for-profit entities established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to manage land, resources, and economic interests on behalf of Alaska Native shareholders.
  • E. Hudson Companies
    Hudson Companies is a real estate development firm known for undertaking large-scale commercial and mixed-use projects.
  • 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: Washington Companies
Triple: [Dennis Washington, founded, Washington Companies]
Generated description
Washington Companies is a privately held Montana-based conglomerate with diversified interests in industries such as construction, mining, rail transportation, and marine services.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington Companies
Target entity description: Washington Companies is a privately held Montana-based conglomerate with diversified interests in industries such as construction, mining, rail transportation, and marine services.
  • A. South West Company
    South West Company was a 19th-century American fur trading enterprise established by prominent merchant and fur magnate John Jacob Astor.
  • B. Canada Company
    Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
  • C. Washington Water Power Company
    Washington Water Power Company is a historic electric utility based in Spokane, Washington, known for developing hydroelectric power projects in the Pacific Northwest.
  • D. Alaska Native regional corporations
    Alaska Native regional corporations are for-profit entities established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to manage land, resources, and economic interests on behalf of Alaska Native shareholders.
  • E. Hudson Companies
    Hudson Companies is a real estate development firm known for undertaking large-scale commercial and mixed-use projects.
  • 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_69e0b4f9d5ec8190bb2bd27350ed341c completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6ec647028819082031eb706a62ad5 completed April 21, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a091fc4d81081908c412567cd0e5073 completed May 17, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09210bde4c8190841af0f9a29ecdd9 completed May 17, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09217fdcd08190bc41700ec09851e1 completed May 17, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:48 p.m.