Triple

T2721259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ball Aerospace E60083 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
 E293597 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: Ball Corporation | Statement: [Ball Aerospace, foundedBy, Ball Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ball Corporation
Context triple: [Ball Aerospace, foundedBy, Ball Corporation]
  • A. Pall Corporation
    Pall Corporation is a global leader in filtration, separation, and purification technologies serving industries such as biopharmaceuticals, aerospace, and microelectronics.
  • B. Goodrich Corporation
    Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
  • C. Brown Corporation
    Brown Corporation is the primary governing board of Brown University, responsible for overseeing its strategic direction, finances, and institutional policies.
  • D. Marcus Corporation
    Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
  • E. Rohm and Haas
    Rohm and Haas is a specialty chemicals company known for producing advanced materials and chemical products used in coatings, electronics, and industrial applications.
  • 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: Ball Corporation
Triple: [Ball Aerospace, foundedBy, Ball Corporation]
Generated description
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ball Corporation
Target entity description: Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
  • A. Pall Corporation
    Pall Corporation is a global leader in filtration, separation, and purification technologies serving industries such as biopharmaceuticals, aerospace, and microelectronics.
  • B. Goodrich Corporation
    Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
  • C. Brown Corporation
    Brown Corporation is the primary governing board of Brown University, responsible for overseeing its strategic direction, finances, and institutional policies.
  • D. Marcus Corporation
    Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
  • E. Rohm and Haas
    Rohm and Haas is a specialty chemicals company known for producing advanced materials and chemical products used in coatings, electronics, and industrial applications.
  • 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_69ab4b746d248190958e052045c09255 completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdab1cb808190b0789c76bc9cb090 completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afb6914f70819099482893d026f34b completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb726182081909570e4cb7a364e4d completed March 10, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb78f9d08819087d6f31fe1e4e61c completed March 10, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.