Triple

T22717528
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elf Aquitaine E561774 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object TotalFinaElf
TotalFinaElf was a major French multinational oil and gas company that emerged from a series of mergers before later rebranding as Total.
E1550575 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: TotalFinaElf | Statement: [Elf Aquitaine, successor, TotalFinaElf]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: TotalFinaElf
Context triple: [Elf Aquitaine, successor, TotalFinaElf]
  • A. Groupe Elf Aquitaine
    Groupe Elf Aquitaine was a major French oil and gas company that became one of Europe’s largest petroleum groups before merging into TotalFinaElf (now TotalEnergies).
  • B. PetGas
    PetGas is the commonly used abbreviation for Petronas Gas Berhad, a major Malaysian company involved in gas processing, transmission, and utilities under the PETRONAS group.
  • C. Lefuel
    Lefuel is a French surname most notably associated with Hector Lefuel, a 19th-century architect known for his work on the Louvre in Paris.
  • D. Régie Autonome des Pétroles
    Régie Autonome des Pétroles was a French state-owned oil company that served as a precursor to the later major petroleum group Elf Aquitaine.
  • E. Socar
    Socar is an ancient Egyptian funerary deity associated with the Memphite necropolis and the afterlife, often later syncretized with Ptah and Osiris.
  • 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: TotalFinaElf
Triple: [Elf Aquitaine, successor, TotalFinaElf]
Generated description
TotalFinaElf was a major French multinational oil and gas company that emerged from a series of mergers before later rebranding as Total.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: TotalFinaElf
Target entity description: TotalFinaElf was a major French multinational oil and gas company that emerged from a series of mergers before later rebranding as Total.
  • A. Groupe Elf Aquitaine chosen
    Groupe Elf Aquitaine was a major French oil and gas company that became one of Europe’s largest petroleum groups before merging into TotalFinaElf (now TotalEnergies).
  • B. PetGas
    PetGas is the commonly used abbreviation for Petronas Gas Berhad, a major Malaysian company involved in gas processing, transmission, and utilities under the PETRONAS group.
  • C. Lefuel
    Lefuel is a French surname most notably associated with Hector Lefuel, a 19th-century architect known for his work on the Louvre in Paris.
  • D. Régie Autonome des Pétroles
    Régie Autonome des Pétroles was a French state-owned oil company that served as a precursor to the later major petroleum group Elf Aquitaine.
  • E. Socar
    Socar is an ancient Egyptian funerary deity associated with the Memphite necropolis and the afterlife, often later syncretized with Ptah and Osiris.
  • 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_69e2454fc984819088213b58ee87a002 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1790ecbc48190926d16b20b674dbd completed April 29, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b8fbe82fc8190a783458a6aba1f6b completed May 18, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b90eb442481909bac0fc11e3a50be completed May 18, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b9153b6f88190982da7a3ed3774ff completed May 18, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:19 p.m.