Triple

T18817278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benjamin Outram E460169 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Outram and Company
Benjamin Outram and Company was an early British civil engineering and industrial firm known for its pioneering work in canal, tramway, and ironworks construction during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E1343864 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: Benjamin Outram and Company | Statement: [Benjamin Outram, employer, Benjamin Outram and Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Outram and Company
Context triple: [Benjamin Outram, employer, Benjamin Outram and Company]
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Richard Bentley & Son
    Richard Bentley & Son was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing notable works of Victorian literature and popular fiction.
  • D. T. P. Bennett & Son
    T. P. Bennett & Son is a British architectural firm known for its modern commercial and hospitality projects, including prominent London landmarks.
  • E. John Barker & Co.
    John Barker & Co. was a prominent British department store company best known for operating major London stores such as Barkers of Kensington and Derry & Toms.
  • 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: Benjamin Outram and Company
Triple: [Benjamin Outram, employer, Benjamin Outram and Company]
Generated description
Benjamin Outram and Company was an early British civil engineering and industrial firm known for its pioneering work in canal, tramway, and ironworks construction during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Outram and Company
Target entity description: Benjamin Outram and Company was an early British civil engineering and industrial firm known for its pioneering work in canal, tramway, and ironworks construction during the late 18th and early 19th 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. 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.
  • C. Richard Bentley & Son
    Richard Bentley & Son was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing notable works of Victorian literature and popular fiction.
  • D. T. P. Bennett & Son
    T. P. Bennett & Son is a British architectural firm known for its modern commercial and hospitality projects, including prominent London landmarks.
  • E. John Barker & Co.
    John Barker & Co. was a prominent British department store company best known for operating major London stores such as Barkers of Kensington and Derry & Toms.
  • 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_69d8dcf94c288190a06dea029ae4b223 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5a6b620248190afa21a6ce61e2cff completed April 20, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a055bc7cf40819084b9b975daa86b5f completed May 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a055d9a9da88190b974e8803ca8537f completed May 14, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a055e1a22308190bb7f2337fabc5bdf completed May 14, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.