Triple

T259922
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS West Virginia (BB-48) E5518 entity
Predicate builder P3143 FINISHED
Object Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
E34155 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: Newport News Shipbuilding | Statement: [USS West Virginia (BB-48), builder, Newport News Shipbuilding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Newport News Shipbuilding
Context triple: [USS West Virginia (BB-48), builder, Newport News Shipbuilding]
  • A. New York Shipbuilding Corporation
    New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
  • B. Harland and Wolff
    Harland and Wolff is a historic Belfast-based shipbuilding and heavy engineering company best known for constructing famous ocean liners including RMS Titanic.
  • C. United States Maritime Commission
    The United States Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in the 1930s to develop, regulate, and expand the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial and auxiliary ships.
  • D. American Locomotive Company
    The American Locomotive Company was a major U.S. manufacturer of steam and diesel locomotives and other heavy machinery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Great Lakes Works
    Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
  • 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: Newport News Shipbuilding
Triple: [USS West Virginia (BB-48), builder, Newport News Shipbuilding]
Generated description
Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Newport News Shipbuilding
Target entity description: Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
  • A. New York Shipbuilding Corporation
    New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
  • B. Harland and Wolff
    Harland and Wolff is a historic Belfast-based shipbuilding and heavy engineering company best known for constructing famous ocean liners including RMS Titanic.
  • C. United States Maritime Commission
    The United States Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in the 1930s to develop, regulate, and expand the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial and auxiliary ships.
  • D. American Locomotive Company
    The American Locomotive Company was a major U.S. manufacturer of steam and diesel locomotives and other heavy machinery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Great Lakes Works
    Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
  • 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_69a2580a64ac8190ad76e34bb0715b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d72dad4819092c9502e6e4edc44 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a386170dac81909a5ebf631f6037ab completed March 1, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a386b6ebd88190bf52dc3706abfc39 completed March 1, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a38764d03c8190a428a8b1cd5eac06 completed March 1, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.