Triple

T2719608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation E60049 entity
Predicate subsidiaryOf P254 FINISHED
Object HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company, and one of the world’s largest banking and financial institutions.
E60049 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: HSBC Holdings plc | Statement: [Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, subsidiaryOf, HSBC Holdings plc]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HSBC Holdings plc
Context triple: [Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, subsidiaryOf, HSBC Holdings plc]
  • A. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
    The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is a major Hong Kong-based banking institution and the founding member of the HSBC Group, providing a wide range of financial services across Asia and globally.
  • B. Barclays
    Barclays is a major British multinational universal bank headquartered in London, known for its global retail, corporate, and investment banking services.
  • C. Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group is a major UK-based financial services company that operates several well-known banking brands and provides retail, commercial, and insurance services.
  • D. Royal Bank of Scotland
    The Royal Bank of Scotland is a major Scottish commercial and retail bank, historically one of the UK's largest banking institutions and now part of the NatWest Group.
  • E. Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)
    Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) is a major international banking group’s Hong Kong subsidiary, providing a wide range of retail and corporate banking services and operating as one of the territory’s key note-issuing banks.
  • 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: HSBC Holdings plc
Triple: [Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, subsidiaryOf, HSBC Holdings plc]
Generated description
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company, and one of the world’s largest banking and financial institutions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HSBC Holdings plc
Target entity description: HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company, and one of the world’s largest banking and financial institutions.
  • A. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation chosen
    The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is a major Hong Kong-based banking institution and the founding member of the HSBC Group, providing a wide range of financial services across Asia and globally.
  • B. Barclays
    Barclays is a major British multinational universal bank headquartered in London, known for its global retail, corporate, and investment banking services.
  • C. Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group is a major UK-based financial services company that operates several well-known banking brands and provides retail, commercial, and insurance services.
  • D. Royal Bank of Scotland
    The Royal Bank of Scotland is a major Scottish commercial and retail bank, historically one of the UK's largest banking institutions and now part of the NatWest Group.
  • E. Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)
    Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) is a major international banking group’s Hong Kong subsidiary, providing a wide range of retail and corporate banking services and operating as one of the territory’s key note-issuing banks.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ab4b746d248190958e052045c09255 completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdaaee104819085966bc54d5da9c0 completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afce8317fc8190ab3736b950b92495 completed March 10, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afcef4f8f881908deab641abe6586e completed March 10, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afcf60d3c88190a2e2bf49cd1ec766 completed March 10, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.