Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Rennie the Younger E110715 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Rennie family engineering firm
The Rennie family engineering firm was a prominent British civil engineering business known for major 19th-century infrastructure projects, including bridges, docks, and canals.
 E480646 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: Rennie family engineering firm | Statement: [John Rennie the Younger, employer, Rennie family engineering firm]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rennie family engineering firm
Context triple: [John Rennie the Younger, employer, Rennie family engineering firm]
  • A. Radley Steel Construction Company
    Radley Steel Construction Company was an early 20th-century engineering and construction firm known for employing pioneering civil engineer and suffragist Nora Stanton Blatch.
  • B. Tellepsen Builders
    Tellepsen Builders is a prominent Houston-based construction firm known for managing large-scale commercial and institutional building projects.
  • C. Osborn Engineering Company
    Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
  • D. Roberts Construction
    Roberts Construction was the original construction company that later evolved into the major South African engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts.
  • E. Brown & Root
    Brown & Root is a major American engineering and construction company historically known for large-scale industrial, infrastructure, and government projects.
  • 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: Rennie family engineering firm
Triple: [John Rennie the Younger, employer, Rennie family engineering firm]
Generated description
The Rennie family engineering firm was a prominent British civil engineering business known for major 19th-century infrastructure projects, including bridges, docks, and canals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rennie family engineering firm
Target entity description: The Rennie family engineering firm was a prominent British civil engineering business known for major 19th-century infrastructure projects, including bridges, docks, and canals.
  • A. Radley Steel Construction Company
    Radley Steel Construction Company was an early 20th-century engineering and construction firm known for employing pioneering civil engineer and suffragist Nora Stanton Blatch.
  • B. Tellepsen Builders
    Tellepsen Builders is a prominent Houston-based construction firm known for managing large-scale commercial and institutional building projects.
  • C. Osborn Engineering Company
    Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
  • D. Roberts Construction
    Roberts Construction was the original construction company that later evolved into the major South African engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts.
  • E. Brown & Root
    Brown & Root is a major American engineering and construction company historically known for large-scale industrial, infrastructure, and government projects.
  • 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_69bd4415190c8190817bee7ec9f9f944 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7063c57c8190a5a6fb3586238d35 completed March 20, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be77b18b6c8190bbc8d0764f6a03bf completed March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be78ce97948190a0a54b1baa0ff979 completed March 21, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be7929cec08190a6fb28385c5bfce9 completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.