Triple

T22630238
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hercules Powder Company E558527 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Atlas Powder Company
Atlas Powder Company was a major American manufacturer of explosives and chemical products that played a significant role in mining, construction, and military supply during the 19th and 20th centuries.
E558524 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: Atlas Powder Company | Statement: [Hercules Powder Company, relatedTo, Atlas Powder Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Atlas Powder Company
Context triple: [Hercules Powder Company, relatedTo, Atlas Powder Company]
  • A. Maxim Powder Company
    Maxim Powder Company was an explosives manufacturing firm associated with inventor and chemist Hudson Maxim, known for its work in gunpowder and munitions.
  • B. King Powder Company
    King Powder Company was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century explosives manufacturer whose operations played a central role in the industrial and community development of Kings Mills, Ohio.
  • C. Hercules Powder Company
    Hercules Powder Company was an American explosives and chemical manufacturing firm that became a major producer of industrial and military propellants and later evolved into the diversified chemical company Hercules Inc.
  • D. Vail & Vickers Company
    Vail & Vickers Company was a ranching enterprise that long operated cattle and sheep operations on California’s Santa Rosa Island before the land became part of Channel Islands National Park.
  • E. Powdr Corporation
    Powdr Corporation is a major American ski resort owner and operator known for managing multiple mountain destinations and adventure sports facilities across 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: Atlas Powder Company
Triple: [Hercules Powder Company, relatedTo, Atlas Powder Company]
Generated description
Atlas Powder Company was a major American manufacturer of explosives and chemical products that played a significant role in mining, construction, and military supply during the 19th and 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Atlas Powder Company
Target entity description: Atlas Powder Company was a major American manufacturer of explosives and chemical products that played a significant role in mining, construction, and military supply during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • A. Maxim Powder Company
    Maxim Powder Company was an explosives manufacturing firm associated with inventor and chemist Hudson Maxim, known for its work in gunpowder and munitions.
  • B. King Powder Company
    King Powder Company was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century explosives manufacturer whose operations played a central role in the industrial and community development of Kings Mills, Ohio.
  • C. Hercules Powder Company chosen
    Hercules Powder Company was an American explosives and chemical manufacturing firm that became a major producer of industrial and military propellants and later evolved into the diversified chemical company Hercules Inc.
  • D. Vail & Vickers Company
    Vail & Vickers Company was a ranching enterprise that long operated cattle and sheep operations on California’s Santa Rosa Island before the land became part of Channel Islands National Park.
  • E. Powdr Corporation
    Powdr Corporation is a major American ski resort owner and operator known for managing multiple mountain destinations and adventure sports facilities across the United States.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e245467d9881908d6985bd0db7a1f1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17008e7648190b243c18067b4efb9 completed April 29, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b4e0b2dd081909b063c50b18579c4 completed May 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b4ed997448190a6fe89160ccc223b completed May 18, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b4f8600448190a726d0fe91e17cff completed May 18, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:02 p.m.