Triple

T5722404
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rudolf Diesel E126176 entity
Predicate workedFor P1910 FINISHED
Object Sulzer Brothers
Sulzer Brothers was a prominent Swiss engineering and manufacturing company known for its pioneering work in diesel engines and industrial machinery.
 E541356 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: Sulzer Brothers | Statement: [Rudolf Diesel, workedFor, Sulzer Brothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sulzer Brothers
Context triple: [Rudolf Diesel, workedFor, Sulzer Brothers]
  • A. E.S. Mittler & Sohn
    E.S. Mittler & Sohn is a historic German publishing house known for its military and technical literature.
  • B. B. H. Schröder & Co.
    B. H. Schröder & Co. was a 19th-century commercial firm, likely a trading or merchant house, that employed the young archaeologist-to-be Heinrich Schliemann during his early business career.
  • C. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. W. Duke, Sons & Co.
    W. Duke, Sons & Co. was a prominent late-19th-century American cigarette manufacturer that became a core predecessor to the American Tobacco Company trust.
  • E. Bühler
    Bühler is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
  • 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: Sulzer Brothers
Triple: [Rudolf Diesel, workedFor, Sulzer Brothers]
Generated description
Sulzer Brothers was a prominent Swiss engineering and manufacturing company known for its pioneering work in diesel engines and industrial machinery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sulzer Brothers
Target entity description: Sulzer Brothers was a prominent Swiss engineering and manufacturing company known for its pioneering work in diesel engines and industrial machinery.
  • A. E.S. Mittler & Sohn
    E.S. Mittler & Sohn is a historic German publishing house known for its military and technical literature.
  • B. B. H. Schröder & Co.
    B. H. Schröder & Co. was a 19th-century commercial firm, likely a trading or merchant house, that employed the young archaeologist-to-be Heinrich Schliemann during his early business career.
  • C. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. W. Duke, Sons & Co.
    W. Duke, Sons & Co. was a prominent late-19th-century American cigarette manufacturer that became a core predecessor to the American Tobacco Company trust.
  • E. Bühler
    Bühler is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
  • 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_69c0082e3d548190950169847b43043b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024e6c444819089270b188e60cc67 completed March 22, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a80aefc8190b6ea35ab405ea502 completed March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05c7663388190ab491144149532a4 completed March 22, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05d2ef9488190ac0111cb6a94b1d0 completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.