Triple

T7382996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Torday E170307 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Torday & Carlisle (engineering company)
Torday & Carlisle is an engineering firm best known as the company where British novelist Paul Torday worked during his professional career outside of writing.
E659833 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: Torday & Carlisle (engineering company) | Statement: [Paul Torday, employer, Torday & Carlisle (engineering company)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Torday & Carlisle (engineering company)
Context triple: [Paul Torday, employer, Torday & Carlisle (engineering company)]
  • A. Dundalk Engineering Company
    Dundalk Engineering Company was an Irish firm known for producing licensed versions of the Heinkel Kabine microcar.
  • B. Infratil
    Infratil is a New Zealand-based infrastructure investment company with significant holdings in sectors such as transport, energy, and social infrastructure.
  • C. Carron Company
    Carron Company was a prominent 18th–19th century Scottish ironworks best known for pioneering cast-iron production and manufacturing the “carronade” naval cannon.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Clinton Engineer Works
    Clinton Engineer Works was a massive World War II-era industrial complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built as part of the Manhattan Project to produce fissile material for the first atomic bombs.
  • 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: Torday & Carlisle (engineering company)
Triple: [Paul Torday, employer, Torday & Carlisle (engineering company)]
Generated description
Torday & Carlisle is an engineering firm best known as the company where British novelist Paul Torday worked during his professional career outside of writing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Torday & Carlisle (engineering company)
Target entity description: Torday & Carlisle is an engineering firm best known as the company where British novelist Paul Torday worked during his professional career outside of writing.
  • A. Dundalk Engineering Company
    Dundalk Engineering Company was an Irish firm known for producing licensed versions of the Heinkel Kabine microcar.
  • B. Infratil
    Infratil is a New Zealand-based infrastructure investment company with significant holdings in sectors such as transport, energy, and social infrastructure.
  • C. Carron Company
    Carron Company was a prominent 18th–19th century Scottish ironworks best known for pioneering cast-iron production and manufacturing the “carronade” naval cannon.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Clinton Engineer Works
    Clinton Engineer Works was a massive World War II-era industrial complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built as part of the Manhattan Project to produce fissile material for the first atomic bombs.
  • 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_69c68a5d0ed08190b6d361e68f813330 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f1c9a3c48190972126c19aa31dca completed March 27, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c802dee7448190be1835bd822b9180 completed March 28, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c80362bcb88190ad8c42f520d7dd56 completed March 28, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c803da5e2c819098814b16d14cf837 completed March 28, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:08 p.m.