Triple

T3346618
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John I. Thornycroft & Company E70388 entity
Predicate mergedInto P77 FINISHED
Object Vosper Thornycroft
Vosper Thornycroft was a prominent British shipbuilding and marine engineering company known for constructing naval vessels, patrol boats, and other specialized ships.
E70388 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: Vosper Thornycroft | Statement: [John I. Thornycroft & Company, mergedInto, Vosper Thornycroft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vosper Thornycroft
Context triple: [John I. Thornycroft & Company, mergedInto, Vosper Thornycroft]
  • A. John I. Thornycroft & Company
    John I. Thornycroft & Company was a British shipbuilding firm renowned for designing and constructing naval vessels, particularly destroyers and fast attack craft, for the Royal Navy and other customers.
  • B. Blyth Shipbuilding Company
    Blyth Shipbuilding Company was a British shipyard based in Blyth, Northumberland, known for constructing naval and commercial vessels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Cammell Laird
    Cammell Laird is a historic British shipbuilding company based in Birkenhead, England, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels.
  • D. Charles L. Parsons
    Charles L. Parsons was an American chemist and longtime American Chemical Society leader recognized for his significant contributions to the chemical profession.
  • E. Dorman Long and Co Ltd
    Dorman Long and Co Ltd was a prominent British engineering and steel company best known for designing and building major steel bridges and structures worldwide, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  • 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: Vosper Thornycroft
Triple: [John I. Thornycroft & Company, mergedInto, Vosper Thornycroft]
Generated description
Vosper Thornycroft was a prominent British shipbuilding and marine engineering company known for constructing naval vessels, patrol boats, and other specialized ships.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vosper Thornycroft
Target entity description: Vosper Thornycroft was a prominent British shipbuilding and marine engineering company known for constructing naval vessels, patrol boats, and other specialized ships.
  • A. John I. Thornycroft & Company chosen
    John I. Thornycroft & Company was a British shipbuilding firm renowned for designing and constructing naval vessels, particularly destroyers and fast attack craft, for the Royal Navy and other customers.
  • B. Blyth Shipbuilding Company
    Blyth Shipbuilding Company was a British shipyard based in Blyth, Northumberland, known for constructing naval and commercial vessels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Cammell Laird
    Cammell Laird is a historic British shipbuilding company based in Birkenhead, England, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels.
  • D. Charles L. Parsons
    Charles L. Parsons was an American chemist and longtime American Chemical Society leader recognized for his significant contributions to the chemical profession.
  • E. Dorman Long and Co Ltd
    Dorman Long and Co Ltd was a prominent British engineering and steel company best known for designing and building major steel bridges and structures worldwide, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  • 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_69ad85a405e48190b6e68de7cf9f319e completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb1f4ff888190bf14b9b7fbe9bcee completed March 8, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b32522cbc88190b965087a580d7acf completed March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b325a0de7c8190a33ae611b8450b5a completed March 12, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b326862e848190bf1bea74b6ab0b36 completed March 12, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.