Triple

T9814566
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benjamin B. Hotchkiss E238366 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Hotchkiss et Cie
Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and automobile manufacturing company founded by American engineer Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, known for its machine guns and later luxury cars.
E824335 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: Hotchkiss et Cie | Statement: [Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, employer, Hotchkiss et Cie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotchkiss et Cie
Context triple: [Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, employer, Hotchkiss et Cie]
  • A. Hotchkiss
    Hotchkiss is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including inventor and industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.
  • B. Packard
    Packard is a surname most prominently associated with David Packard, the American electrical engineer and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
  • C. Compagnie de Fives-Lille
    Compagnie de Fives-Lille was a prominent French engineering and construction firm known for designing and building major iron and steel structures, including notable railway stations and industrial works in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Packard Motor Car Company
    Packard Motor Car Company was a prominent American luxury automobile manufacturer that also produced high-performance aircraft engines, especially during World War II.
  • E. Société des Moteurs Le Rhône
    Société des Moteurs Le Rhône was a prominent early 20th-century French aero engine manufacturer known for its widely used rotary engines in World War I aircraft.
  • 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: Hotchkiss et Cie
Triple: [Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, employer, Hotchkiss et Cie]
Generated description
Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and automobile manufacturing company founded by American engineer Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, known for its machine guns and later luxury cars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotchkiss et Cie
Target entity description: Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and automobile manufacturing company founded by American engineer Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, known for its machine guns and later luxury cars.
  • A. Hotchkiss
    Hotchkiss is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including inventor and industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.
  • B. Packard
    Packard is a surname most prominently associated with David Packard, the American electrical engineer and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
  • C. Compagnie de Fives-Lille
    Compagnie de Fives-Lille was a prominent French engineering and construction firm known for designing and building major iron and steel structures, including notable railway stations and industrial works in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Packard Motor Car Company
    Packard Motor Car Company was a prominent American luxury automobile manufacturer that also produced high-performance aircraft engines, especially during World War II.
  • E. Société des Moteurs Le Rhône
    Société des Moteurs Le Rhône was a prominent early 20th-century French aero engine manufacturer known for its widely used rotary engines in World War I aircraft.
  • 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_69ca84defac48190abc1148804f184c1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb2f19660819083e3f15780352052 completed April 2, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1d5b264c88190bf16c8c32c360878 completed April 5, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1d6252f6c819087977f0713e53e50 completed April 5, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d6a4429c8190b761dea635c6674e completed April 5, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:30 p.m.