Triple

T18814181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Algernon Parsons E460090 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object W.G. Armstrong & Co.
W.G. Armstrong & Co. was a prominent British engineering and armaments firm known for its innovations in artillery, hydraulics, and heavy industrial machinery during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
E1344872 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: W.G. Armstrong & Co. | Statement: [Charles Algernon Parsons, employer, W.G. Armstrong & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W.G. Armstrong & Co.
Context triple: [Charles Algernon Parsons, employer, W.G. Armstrong & Co.]
  • A. Burnham & Co.
    Burnham & Co. was a prominent architectural firm led by Daniel Burnham, known for designing significant civic and commercial buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Whitworth & Co.
    Whitworth & Co. was the engineering and manufacturing firm founded by Sir Joseph Whitworth, renowned for its precision machine tools and contributions to standardizing screw threads in the 19th century.
  • C. Brewster & Co.
    Brewster & Co. was a prestigious American coachbuilding firm renowned for crafting luxurious custom bodies for high-end automobiles in the early 20th century.
  • D. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • E. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • 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: W.G. Armstrong & Co.
Triple: [Charles Algernon Parsons, employer, W.G. Armstrong & Co.]
Generated description
W.G. Armstrong & Co. was a prominent British engineering and armaments firm known for its innovations in artillery, hydraulics, and heavy industrial machinery during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W.G. Armstrong & Co.
Target entity description: W.G. Armstrong & Co. was a prominent British engineering and armaments firm known for its innovations in artillery, hydraulics, and heavy industrial machinery during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Burnham & Co.
    Burnham & Co. was a prominent architectural firm led by Daniel Burnham, known for designing significant civic and commercial buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Whitworth & Co.
    Whitworth & Co. was the engineering and manufacturing firm founded by Sir Joseph Whitworth, renowned for its precision machine tools and contributions to standardizing screw threads in the 19th century.
  • C. Brewster & Co.
    Brewster & Co. was a prestigious American coachbuilding firm renowned for crafting luxurious custom bodies for high-end automobiles in the early 20th century.
  • D. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • E. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • 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_69d8d398c7d4819091cb2f7e48948aeb completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5a3df2d3881909b336d813bbfd0aa completed April 20, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a055bc5fb2c8190ae2fa1727427fd8c completed May 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a055ff5103881908cc6f21428ea5c23 completed May 14, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0563db346481909fbdcb2e80ea0fcf completed May 14, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:53 a.m.