Triple

T21924218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Key Caird E541398 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Caird & Company
Caird & Company was a prominent Scottish jute manufacturing firm based in Dundee, active during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
E1508779 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: Caird & Company | Statement: [James Key Caird, employer, Caird & Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caird & Company
Context triple: [James Key Caird, employer, Caird & Company]
  • A. 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.
  • B. John Ballantyne and Co.
    John Ballantyne and Co. was an early 19th-century Edinburgh publishing firm known for issuing major literary works, including those of Sir Walter Scott.
  • C. Clowes and Sons
    Clowes and Sons was a British printing and publishing firm known for producing scholarly and academic works in the 19th century.
  • D. Baird & Thomson
    Baird & Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish architectural firm associated with the early career of prominent architect Alexander Thomson.
  • E. Stewart & Co.
    Stewart & Co. was a department store chain that operated as part of the Associated Dry Goods retail group in the United States.
  • 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: Caird & Company
Triple: [James Key Caird, employer, Caird & Company]
Generated description
Caird & Company was a prominent Scottish jute manufacturing firm based in Dundee, active during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caird & Company
Target entity description: Caird & Company was a prominent Scottish jute manufacturing firm based in Dundee, active during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. 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.
  • B. John Ballantyne and Co.
    John Ballantyne and Co. was an early 19th-century Edinburgh publishing firm known for issuing major literary works, including those of Sir Walter Scott.
  • C. Clowes and Sons
    Clowes and Sons was a British printing and publishing firm known for producing scholarly and academic works in the 19th century.
  • D. Baird & Thomson
    Baird & Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish architectural firm associated with the early career of prominent architect Alexander Thomson.
  • E. Stewart & Co.
    Stewart & Co. was a department store chain that operated as part of the Associated Dry Goods retail group in the United States.
  • 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_69e0c47d74488190a15119108794a307 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1233dc504819083ee27e253805189 completed April 28, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a60df6d2881909ace4a1a1d5b8cc8 completed May 18, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a6170bc5c8190b6b28e02675da476 completed May 18, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a61f66a988190b07a9e36cacf44bf completed May 18, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:45 p.m.