Triple

T460274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British American Tobacco E7321 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland
Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland was a major early 20th-century British tobacco conglomerate that played a key role in shaping the global cigarette industry.
E57776 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: Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland | Statement: [British American Tobacco, foundedBy, Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland
Context triple: [British American Tobacco, foundedBy, Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland]
  • A. British American Tobacco
    British American Tobacco is one of the world’s largest multinational tobacco companies, known for producing and marketing leading cigarette and nicotine brands across numerous global markets.
  • B. American Tobacco Company
    The American Tobacco Company was a dominant U.S. tobacco conglomerate founded in the late 19th century by James B. Duke that became one of the original antitrust "trusts" before being broken up by the federal government.
  • C. Browne & Williamson
    Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
  • D. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • E. Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
  • 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: Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland
Triple: [British American Tobacco, foundedBy, Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland]
Generated description
Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland was a major early 20th-century British tobacco conglomerate that played a key role in shaping the global cigarette industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland
Target entity description: Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland was a major early 20th-century British tobacco conglomerate that played a key role in shaping the global cigarette industry.
  • A. British American Tobacco
    British American Tobacco is one of the world’s largest multinational tobacco companies, known for producing and marketing leading cigarette and nicotine brands across numerous global markets.
  • B. American Tobacco Company
    The American Tobacco Company was a dominant U.S. tobacco conglomerate founded in the late 19th century by James B. Duke that became one of the original antitrust "trusts" before being broken up by the federal government.
  • C. Browne & Williamson
    Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
  • D. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • E. Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
  • 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_69a2e7e5c5bc8190a1dc8178218fba40 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2efbd6ed481909ec40f12b5b675c8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44f583ea081908d92fe5b5dc4d3c0 completed March 1, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a45150b3f8819094519329a68fb1b8 completed March 1, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a451ab785c8190b4cab0d162b4efa8 completed March 1, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.