Triple
T857424
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British India Steam Navigation Company |
E18522
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedAs |
P364
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company |
E18522
|
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: Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company | Statement: [British India Steam Navigation Company, foundedAs, Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company Context triple: [British India Steam Navigation Company, foundedAs, Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company]
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A.
British India Steam Navigation Company
chosen
The British India Steam Navigation Company was a major British shipping line that operated extensive passenger and cargo services across the Indian Ocean, connecting Britain with India, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
White Star Line
White Star Line was a prominent British shipping company best known for operating the RMS Titanic and other famous ocean liners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
James Lumsden and Company
James Lumsden and Company was a 19th-century Scottish firm, associated with Glasgow civic leader and stationer James Lumsden, that played a key role in the early development of what became Clydesdale Bank.
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D.
Meriden Britannia Company
Meriden Britannia Company was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American silverware and metalware manufacturer known for its high-quality silver-plated products and role in establishing Meriden, Connecticut as a major silver industry center.
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E.
Ashton Line
The Ashton Line is a light-rail route on Greater Manchester’s Metrolink network that runs between Manchester city centre and Ashton-under-Lyne.
- 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_69a4938bdd3c8190a954a3c11844d9cf |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4ac4d47508190b48d944aa2d881bf |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:14 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7a3c1ee4481909d5713122e5ad856 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.