Triple

T4848732
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject ITT Corporation E108357 entity
Predicate hasSuccessor P78 FINISHED
Object Xylem Inc.
Xylem Inc. is a global water technology company that designs and manufactures equipment and solutions for water and wastewater transport, treatment, and testing.
 E473528 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: Xylem Inc. | Statement: [ITT Corporation, hasSuccessor, Xylem Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Xylem Inc.
Context triple: [ITT Corporation, hasSuccessor, Xylem Inc.]
  • A. Black & Veatch
    Black & Veatch is a global engineering, consulting, and construction company specializing in infrastructure development in sectors such as energy, water, and telecommunications.
  • B. American Water
    American Water is a critically acclaimed 1998 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s poetic lyrics and its wry, melancholic tone.
  • C. Clean Water Services
    Clean Water Services is a public utility in Oregon that provides wastewater treatment, water resource management, and environmental services for the Tualatin River watershed and surrounding communities.
  • D. Koch Engineered Solutions
    Koch Engineered Solutions is an industrial technology and engineering company that provides process, pollution control, and optimization solutions across energy, chemical, and manufacturing sectors.
  • E. Fortive
    Fortive is an American diversified industrial technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of measurement, automation, and industrial solutions businesses.
  • 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: Xylem Inc.
Triple: [ITT Corporation, hasSuccessor, Xylem Inc.]
Generated description
Xylem Inc. is a global water technology company that designs and manufactures equipment and solutions for water and wastewater transport, treatment, and testing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Xylem Inc.
Target entity description: Xylem Inc. is a global water technology company that designs and manufactures equipment and solutions for water and wastewater transport, treatment, and testing.
  • A. Black & Veatch
    Black & Veatch is a global engineering, consulting, and construction company specializing in infrastructure development in sectors such as energy, water, and telecommunications.
  • B. American Water
    American Water is a critically acclaimed 1998 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s poetic lyrics and its wry, melancholic tone.
  • C. Clean Water Services
    Clean Water Services is a public utility in Oregon that provides wastewater treatment, water resource management, and environmental services for the Tualatin River watershed and surrounding communities.
  • D. Koch Engineered Solutions
    Koch Engineered Solutions is an industrial technology and engineering company that provides process, pollution control, and optimization solutions across energy, chemical, and manufacturing sectors.
  • E. Fortive
    Fortive is an American diversified industrial technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of measurement, automation, and industrial solutions businesses.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1c5594819094fe021d7717032d completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.