Triple

T18253791
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Holt Manufacturing Company E437167 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Holt brothers
Holt brothers were pioneering American industrialists whose innovations in tracked tractors laid the groundwork for modern heavy machinery and the eventual formation of Caterpillar Inc.
E1314094 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: Holt brothers | Statement: [Holt Manufacturing Company, foundedBy, Holt brothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Holt brothers
Context triple: [Holt Manufacturing Company, foundedBy, Holt brothers]
  • A. Harvey brothers
    The Harvey brothers were 19th-century Scottish distillers and entrepreneurs best known for establishing and operating the Bruichladdich whisky distillery on the Isle of Islay.
  • B. Niedringhaus brothers
    The Niedringhaus brothers were 19th-century industrialists and entrepreneurs whose tinware and steel manufacturing ventures led to the development of Granite City, Illinois, as a planned company town.
  • C. Reitz brothers
    The Reitz brothers were influential South African political figures from an Afrikaner family who played a key role in early Afrikaner nationalist organization and leadership.
  • D. Hecht Brothers
    Hecht Brothers was an early American department store business that evolved into the well-known Hecht's retail chain.
  • E. Gibb brothers
    The Gibb brothers were the members of the Bee Gees, a hugely successful pop and disco group known for their distinctive harmonies and major influence on popular music from the 1960s through the 1980s.
  • 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: Holt brothers
Triple: [Holt Manufacturing Company, foundedBy, Holt brothers]
Generated description
Holt brothers were pioneering American industrialists whose innovations in tracked tractors laid the groundwork for modern heavy machinery and the eventual formation of Caterpillar Inc.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Holt brothers
Target entity description: Holt brothers were pioneering American industrialists whose innovations in tracked tractors laid the groundwork for modern heavy machinery and the eventual formation of Caterpillar Inc.
  • A. Harvey brothers
    The Harvey brothers were 19th-century Scottish distillers and entrepreneurs best known for establishing and operating the Bruichladdich whisky distillery on the Isle of Islay.
  • B. Niedringhaus brothers
    The Niedringhaus brothers were 19th-century industrialists and entrepreneurs whose tinware and steel manufacturing ventures led to the development of Granite City, Illinois, as a planned company town.
  • C. Reitz brothers
    The Reitz brothers were influential South African political figures from an Afrikaner family who played a key role in early Afrikaner nationalist organization and leadership.
  • D. Hecht Brothers
    Hecht Brothers was an early American department store business that evolved into the well-known Hecht's retail chain.
  • E. Gibb brothers
    The Gibb brothers were the members of the Bee Gees, a hugely successful pop and disco group known for their distinctive harmonies and major influence on popular music from the 1960s through the 1980s.
  • 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_69d8b913351c8190932b6a426de04b41 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4fd82f81c81909ad4455954bd8caa completed April 19, 2026, 4:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03ac79bc7881909794d5f563ab0552 completed May 12, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03ad3be75c819080f57a24747ec55f completed May 12, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03aede6ea481908bb9acdb2ff17e9a completed May 12, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:33 a.m.