Triple

T3666409
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject M4 Sherman tank E77768 entity
Predicate manufacturer P490 FINISHED
Object Pacific Car and Foundry
Pacific Car and Foundry was an American industrial company best known for manufacturing heavy equipment and military vehicles, and later for producing Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks under the name PACCAR Inc.
E377236 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: Pacific Car and Foundry | Statement: [M4 Sherman tank, manufacturer, Pacific Car and Foundry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Car and Foundry
Context triple: [M4 Sherman tank, manufacturer, Pacific Car and Foundry]
  • A. Atkinson-Kier Company
    Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
  • B. Union Steel
    Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
  • C. The Canton Company
    The Canton Company is a film production company known for producing movies such as the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
  • D. Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
    Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
  • E. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • 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: Pacific Car and Foundry
Triple: [M4 Sherman tank, manufacturer, Pacific Car and Foundry]
Generated description
Pacific Car and Foundry was an American industrial company best known for manufacturing heavy equipment and military vehicles, and later for producing Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks under the name PACCAR Inc.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Car and Foundry
Target entity description: Pacific Car and Foundry was an American industrial company best known for manufacturing heavy equipment and military vehicles, and later for producing Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks under the name PACCAR Inc.
  • A. Atkinson-Kier Company
    Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
  • B. Union Steel
    Union Steel was an American steel company historically associated with industrialist and financier Andrew W. Mellon.
  • C. The Canton Company
    The Canton Company is a film production company known for producing movies such as the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
  • D. Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
    Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
  • E. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • 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_69ad85dfc4dc8190a441864202ab2a7a completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc40188988190b1b7ac9c8240a5ff completed March 8, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4884bd50c8190a334e9aadc734364 completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4906d6190819086bd51f96d3ffdcc completed March 13, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4add30904819082ed6f6ee5918e57 completed March 14, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.