Triple

T398989
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Federal Steel Company E9236 entity
Predicate hasSubsidiary P254 FINISHED
Object Illinois Steel Company
Illinois Steel Company was a major late-19th-century American steel producer based in the Chicago area that later became part of the U.S. Steel conglomerate.
E51166 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: Illinois Steel Company | Statement: [Federal Steel Company, hasSubsidiary, Illinois Steel Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illinois Steel Company
Context triple: [Federal Steel Company, hasSubsidiary, Illinois Steel Company]
  • A. National Steel Company
    National Steel Company was a major early American steel producer that became part of the conglomerate later known as U.S. Steel.
  • B. Federal Steel Company
    Federal Steel Company was a major late-19th-century American steel producer that became one of the principal constituents of the newly formed United States Steel Corporation.
  • C. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
    Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation was a major American steel manufacturer that became historically significant as the company at the center of the landmark 1937 Supreme Court case NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., which upheld federal power to regulate labor relations.
  • D. Carnegie Steel Company
    Carnegie Steel Company was a dominant late-19th-century American steel producer that played a central role in the expansion of the U.S. steel industry and the rise of modern industrial capitalism.
  • E. Birmingham Steel and Iron Company
    Birmingham Steel and Iron Company was an early 20th-century industrial firm in Birmingham, Alabama, known for its role in the city’s iron and steel production and for casting the iconic Vulcan statue.
  • 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: Illinois Steel Company
Triple: [Federal Steel Company, hasSubsidiary, Illinois Steel Company]
Generated description
Illinois Steel Company was a major late-19th-century American steel producer based in the Chicago area that later became part of the U.S. Steel conglomerate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illinois Steel Company
Target entity description: Illinois Steel Company was a major late-19th-century American steel producer based in the Chicago area that later became part of the U.S. Steel conglomerate.
  • A. National Steel Company
    National Steel Company was a major early American steel producer that became part of the conglomerate later known as U.S. Steel.
  • B. Federal Steel Company
    Federal Steel Company was a major late-19th-century American steel producer that became one of the principal constituents of the newly formed United States Steel Corporation.
  • C. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
    Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation was a major American steel manufacturer that became historically significant as the company at the center of the landmark 1937 Supreme Court case NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., which upheld federal power to regulate labor relations.
  • D. Carnegie Steel Company
    Carnegie Steel Company was a dominant late-19th-century American steel producer that played a central role in the expansion of the U.S. steel industry and the rise of modern industrial capitalism.
  • E. Birmingham Steel and Iron Company
    Birmingham Steel and Iron Company was an early 20th-century industrial firm in Birmingham, Alabama, known for its role in the city’s iron and steel production and for casting the iconic Vulcan statue.
  • 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_69a2e8004cb88190b92ed1add6abf41a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec8d0ca881909d786e8eed9b6748 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a413f275ac81908b6fd095a6d5a415 completed March 1, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a41464d2a8819085ee2fc8a86a7628 completed March 1, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a414a7aff08190ab54f4118cec790d completed March 1, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.