Triple
T4135307
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Costa Coffee |
E85138
|
entity |
| Predicate | previousOwner |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Whitbread |
E165845
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Whitbread | Statement: [Costa Coffee, previousOwner, Whitbread]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitbread Context triple: [Costa Coffee, previousOwner, Whitbread]
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A.
Whitbread PLC
chosen
Whitbread PLC is a major British multinational hospitality company best known for owning the Premier Inn hotel chain and various restaurant brands.
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B.
Cluett Peabody & Company
Cluett Peabody & Company was a prominent American clothing manufacturer best known for its Arrow brand shirts and collars and its influential early 20th-century advertising campaigns.
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C.
Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer is a major British multinational retailer known for its clothing, home goods, and food products.
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D.
Pennon Group
Pennon Group is a UK-based environmental infrastructure company best known for providing water and wastewater services through its regional utilities.
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E.
J Sainsbury plc
J Sainsbury plc is a major British supermarket and retail chain, one of the largest and oldest in the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed935ccd881909dc61f81bcdb7a78 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69af023190608190bcc929c5996b7378 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 5:24 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b576c75e5c8190acc4ee72cb574432 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:43 p.m.