Triple

T4266640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Glasgow shipbuilding industry E96840 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object William Denny and Brothers
William Denny and Brothers was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding firm based in Dumbarton, renowned for its innovative passenger liners and technical advances in marine engineering during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
E444870 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: William Denny and Brothers | Statement: [Glasgow shipbuilding industry, hasPart, William Denny and Brothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Denny and Brothers
Context triple: [Glasgow shipbuilding industry, hasPart, William Denny and Brothers]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Cammell Laird
    Cammell Laird is a historic British shipbuilding company based in Birkenhead, England, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels.
  • C. Harland and Wolff
    Harland and Wolff is a historic Belfast-based shipbuilding and heavy engineering company best known for constructing famous ocean liners including RMS Titanic.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
    Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company was a prominent British shipbuilding and engineering firm on the River Tyne, known for constructing major naval and merchant vessels during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: William Denny and Brothers
Triple: [Glasgow shipbuilding industry, hasPart, William Denny and Brothers]
Generated description
William Denny and Brothers was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding firm based in Dumbarton, renowned for its innovative passenger liners and technical advances in marine engineering during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Denny and Brothers
Target entity description: William Denny and Brothers was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding firm based in Dumbarton, renowned for its innovative passenger liners and technical advances in marine engineering during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Cammell Laird
    Cammell Laird is a historic British shipbuilding company based in Birkenhead, England, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels.
  • C. Harland and Wolff
    Harland and Wolff is a historic Belfast-based shipbuilding and heavy engineering company best known for constructing famous ocean liners including RMS Titanic.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
    Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company was a prominent British shipbuilding and engineering firm on the River Tyne, known for constructing major naval and merchant vessels during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69b34543f06c8190915ebb1a4574ffa9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34fcc383c81908e17da7cbc86a630 completed March 12, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b66b29cbe4819083788fe6e3e8ba3b completed March 15, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b66bec75048190979acafbb79a36e2 completed March 15, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b66f92f3cc8190a9dc9e931dac5378 completed March 15, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:07 p.m.