Triple
T4974804
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shell |
E111738
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedAs |
P364
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company |
E243501
|
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: Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company | Statement: [Shell, foundedAs, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company Context triple: [Shell, foundedAs, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company]
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A.
Royal Dutch Shell
chosen
Royal Dutch Shell is a major British-Dutch multinational oil and gas company and one of the largest energy corporations in the world.
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B.
Anglo-American Oil Company
The Anglo-American Oil Company was a British subsidiary of Standard Oil that played a major role in importing, refining, and distributing petroleum products in the United Kingdom and Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was a British oil company, backed by the UK government, that played a crucial role in developing Middle Eastern oil resources and later evolved into what is now BP.
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D.
Continental Oil Company
Continental Oil Company was a major American petroleum company that emerged as one of the successor firms to the dissolved Standard Oil trust and later became known as Conoco.
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E.
British Petroleum
British Petroleum is a major British multinational oil and gas company involved in exploration, production, refining, and energy trading worldwide.
- 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_69bd441a0eb481908050fa4273b19eae |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd722e77208190833dc760a57428d5 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:13 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be8a01e548819087e3a6ae2cd581b9 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 12:07 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:33 p.m.