Triple

T4995434
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West India Docks E112233 entity
Predicate ownerAtOpening P347 FINISHED
Object West India Dock Company
The West India Dock Company was a British commercial enterprise established in the early 19th century to develop and operate major dock facilities in London for the West Indies trade.
E112233 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: West India Dock Company | Statement: [West India Docks, ownerAtOpening, West India Dock Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West India Dock Company
Context triple: [West India Docks, ownerAtOpening, West India Dock Company]
  • A. Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
    Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company was a prominent 19th-century British shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Thames, known for constructing major Royal Navy warships and pioneering iron-hulled vessels.
  • B. West India Docks
    West India Docks is a historic dock complex on the Isle of Dogs in London that was once one of the world’s busiest commercial docks and is now largely redeveloped as part of the Canary Wharf financial district.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Manchester Corporation
    Manchester Corporation was the former municipal governing body of the city of Manchester, responsible for administering local services, infrastructure, and civic institutions before being replaced by the modern city council structure.
  • E. Dorman Long and Co Ltd
    Dorman Long and Co Ltd was a prominent British engineering and steel company best known for designing and building major steel bridges and structures worldwide, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  • 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: West India Dock Company
Triple: [West India Docks, ownerAtOpening, West India Dock Company]
Generated description
The West India Dock Company was a British commercial enterprise established in the early 19th century to develop and operate major dock facilities in London for the West Indies trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West India Dock Company
Target entity description: The West India Dock Company was a British commercial enterprise established in the early 19th century to develop and operate major dock facilities in London for the West Indies trade.
  • A. Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
    Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company was a prominent 19th-century British shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Thames, known for constructing major Royal Navy warships and pioneering iron-hulled vessels.
  • B. West India Docks chosen
    West India Docks is a historic dock complex on the Isle of Dogs in London that was once one of the world’s busiest commercial docks and is now largely redeveloped as part of the Canary Wharf financial district.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Manchester Corporation
    Manchester Corporation was the former municipal governing body of the city of Manchester, responsible for administering local services, infrastructure, and civic institutions before being replaced by the modern city council structure.
  • E. Dorman Long and Co Ltd
    Dorman Long and Co Ltd was a prominent British engineering and steel company best known for designing and building major steel bridges and structures worldwide, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd4432b32c81909f3b3c6bd10f0653 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd72a0122c8190bb2fc655f3bc11b0 completed March 20, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be8a30bb988190939e1ca5226e1dd4 completed March 21, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8b15879881908ec5ee997daca3cb completed March 21, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8bc2fc088190a13995f9230adea2 completed March 21, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:34 p.m.