Triple

T8121012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cammell Laird E189607 entity
Predicate foundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object Laird Brothers
Laird Brothers was a prominent 19th-century British shipbuilding firm that evolved into the major shipyard and engineering company later known as Cammell Laird.
 E713591 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: Laird Brothers | Statement: [Cammell Laird, foundedAs, Laird Brothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Laird Brothers
Context triple: [Cammell Laird, foundedAs, Laird Brothers]
  • A. Gage Brothers
    Gage Brothers was a prominent Chicago architectural firm known for commissioning notable late-19th-century commercial buildings, including the Gage Building.
  • B. Edward James Harland & Company
    Edward James Harland & Company was the 19th-century Belfast shipbuilding firm founded by Edward James Harland that later evolved into the renowned Harland and Wolff shipyard.
  • C. Wilson Brothers & Company
    Wilson Brothers & Company was a prominent 19th-century American architectural and engineering firm known for designing major railroad stations and industrial structures.
  • D. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • E. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Laird Brothers
Triple: [Cammell Laird, foundedAs, Laird Brothers]
Generated description
Laird Brothers was a prominent 19th-century British shipbuilding firm that evolved into the major shipyard and engineering company later known as Cammell Laird.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Laird Brothers
Target entity description: Laird Brothers was a prominent 19th-century British shipbuilding firm that evolved into the major shipyard and engineering company later known as Cammell Laird.
  • A. Gage Brothers
    Gage Brothers was a prominent Chicago architectural firm known for commissioning notable late-19th-century commercial buildings, including the Gage Building.
  • B. Edward James Harland & Company
    Edward James Harland & Company was the 19th-century Belfast shipbuilding firm founded by Edward James Harland that later evolved into the renowned Harland and Wolff shipyard.
  • C. Wilson Brothers & Company
    Wilson Brothers & Company was a prominent 19th-century American architectural and engineering firm known for designing major railroad stations and industrial structures.
  • D. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • E. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69ca82bb74848190afb1f18640632c10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb435b72888190ad6330b375ed1eff completed March 31, 2026, 3:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc9454ccb48190b0f894bed5da8a01 completed April 1, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc9605b8248190a621ea934c58913d completed April 1, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc96fa03d881909a1eeed6af9a3149 completed April 1, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:33 p.m.