Triple
T21077476
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Playfair |
E519275
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Watt and Company |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: James Watt and Company | Statement: [William Playfair, employer, James Watt and Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Watt and Company Context triple: [William Playfair, employer, James Watt and Company]
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A.
Boulton and Watt
Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
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B.
Sir William Arrol & Co.
Sir William Arrol & Co. was a prominent Scottish civil engineering and construction firm renowned for building major late 19th-century steel bridges and landmark structures in the United Kingdom.
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C.
John Ballantyne and Co.
John Ballantyne and Co. was an early 19th-century Edinburgh publishing firm known for issuing major literary works, including those of Sir Walter Scott.
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D.
William Blackwood and Sons
William Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for producing influential literary and scholarly works.
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E.
Manchester Manufacturing Company
Manchester Manufacturing Company was a textile enterprise established in Georgia by industrialist Fuller E. Callaway as part of his early 20th-century ventures in the Southern cotton mill industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Watt and Company Target entity description: James Watt and Company was an 18th–19th century engineering firm associated with James Watt that played a key role in the development and manufacture of steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
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A.
Boulton and Watt
chosen
Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
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B.
Sir William Arrol & Co.
Sir William Arrol & Co. was a prominent Scottish civil engineering and construction firm renowned for building major late 19th-century steel bridges and landmark structures in the United Kingdom.
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C.
John Ballantyne and Co.
John Ballantyne and Co. was an early 19th-century Edinburgh publishing firm known for issuing major literary works, including those of Sir Walter Scott.
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D.
William Blackwood and Sons
William Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for producing influential literary and scholarly works.
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E.
Manchester Manufacturing Company
Manchester Manufacturing Company was a textile enterprise established in Georgia by industrialist Fuller E. Callaway as part of his early 20th-century ventures in the Southern cotton mill industry.
- F. None of above.
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_69e0b506e59c8190849b71ed07929215 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e702d77b8081908ecfb05ab391fd39 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 4:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.