Triple

T20088687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zenas King E496206 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company
King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company was a prominent 19th-century American firm known for designing and building iron bridges across the United States.
E1409525 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: King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company | Statement: [Zenas King, founded, King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company
Context triple: [Zenas King, founded, King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company]
  • A. Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company
    Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company was a prominent British civil engineering and steel construction firm renowned for designing and building major bridges and large-scale infrastructure projects worldwide.
  • B. Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain
    The Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain was a nationalized holding body that owned and managed most of the British iron and steel industry in the early postwar period.
  • C. Birmingham Steel and Iron Company
    Birmingham Steel and Iron Company was an early 20th-century industrial firm in Birmingham, Alabama, known for its role in the city’s iron and steel production and for casting the iconic Vulcan statue.
  • D. MacIntyre Iron Works
    MacIntyre Iron Works was a historic 19th-century iron mining and smelting operation located in the Adirondack region of New York, known for its role in early American industrial development.
  • E. Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
    Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company was a prominent 19th-century British shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Thames, known for constructing major Royal Navy warships and pioneering iron-hulled vessels.
  • 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: King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company
Triple: [Zenas King, founded, King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company]
Generated description
King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company was a prominent 19th-century American firm known for designing and building iron bridges across the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company
Target entity description: King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company was a prominent 19th-century American firm known for designing and building iron bridges across the United States.
  • A. Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company
    Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company was a prominent British civil engineering and steel construction firm renowned for designing and building major bridges and large-scale infrastructure projects worldwide.
  • B. Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain
    The Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain was a nationalized holding body that owned and managed most of the British iron and steel industry in the early postwar period.
  • C. Birmingham Steel and Iron Company
    Birmingham Steel and Iron Company was an early 20th-century industrial firm in Birmingham, Alabama, known for its role in the city’s iron and steel production and for casting the iconic Vulcan statue.
  • D. MacIntyre Iron Works
    MacIntyre Iron Works was a historic 19th-century iron mining and smelting operation located in the Adirondack region of New York, known for its role in early American industrial development.
  • E. Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
    Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company was a prominent 19th-century British shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Thames, known for constructing major Royal Navy warships and pioneering iron-hulled vessels.
  • 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_69da626eee3881909f3454986d4a6511 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6655d65a88190a510132f36341b6c completed April 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a081f4bdf448190a0abfbaddcf6bd63 completed May 16, 2026, 7:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a081ff7022c81908859a7f5b6a3506d completed May 16, 2026, 7:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08209cbaf88190b2a6d1284fc02228 completed May 16, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:17 p.m.