Triple

T23003166
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boskalis E572685 entity
Predicate hasSubsidiary P254 FINISHED
Object VBMS
VBMS is a specialist company focused on subsea power cable installation and related marine services, operating as a subsidiary of Dutch dredging and marine contractor Boskalis.
E1564912 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: VBMS | Statement: [Boskalis, hasSubsidiary, VBMS]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VBMS
Context triple: [Boskalis, hasSubsidiary, VBMS]
  • A. VCBI
    VCBI is the ICAO airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka located near Colombo.
  • B. BVAS
    BVAS is an electronic device used in Nigerian elections to verify and authenticate voters’ identities using biometric data, helping to reduce fraud and improve the credibility of the voting process.
  • C. VMS
    VMS is a multiuser, multitasking operating system originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation for its VAX minicomputers, known for its robustness, security features, and influence on later systems like Windows NT.
  • D. VMS
    VMS is a regional public transport association in the Chemnitz area of Germany that coordinates and manages integrated fares and services across multiple transit operators.
  • E. VMS
    VMS is a term used to refer to a Visual Memory Unit, a device or component for storing and managing visual or graphical data.
  • 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: VBMS
Triple: [Boskalis, hasSubsidiary, VBMS]
Generated description
VBMS is a specialist company focused on subsea power cable installation and related marine services, operating as a subsidiary of Dutch dredging and marine contractor Boskalis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VBMS
Target entity description: VBMS is a specialist company focused on subsea power cable installation and related marine services, operating as a subsidiary of Dutch dredging and marine contractor Boskalis.
  • A. VCBI
    VCBI is the ICAO airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka located near Colombo.
  • B. BVAS
    BVAS is an electronic device used in Nigerian elections to verify and authenticate voters’ identities using biometric data, helping to reduce fraud and improve the credibility of the voting process.
  • C. VMS
    VMS is a multiuser, multitasking operating system originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation for its VAX minicomputers, known for its robustness, security features, and influence on later systems like Windows NT.
  • D. VMS
    VMS is a regional public transport association in the Chemnitz area of Germany that coordinates and manages integrated fares and services across multiple transit operators.
  • E. VMS
    VMS is a term used to refer to a Visual Memory Unit, a device or component for storing and managing visual or graphical data.
  • 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_69e245b6a3ac81908087599eefe3e365 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f183549bdc81908fdcd44e2c92f7c4 completed April 29, 2026, 4:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bd382776c8190b6bf7d666760d050 completed May 19, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bd41c89708190a3df2a798ca25c99 completed May 19, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bd5263734819082ce8b1c3082243f completed May 19, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:50 p.m.