Triple

T12935429
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Camp E309494 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object New Haven Clock Company
The New Haven Clock Company was a prominent American manufacturer of clocks and timepieces based in New Haven, Connecticut, active from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
E1012044 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: New Haven Clock Company | Statement: [Walter Camp, employer, New Haven Clock Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Haven Clock Company
Context triple: [Walter Camp, employer, New Haven Clock Company]
  • A. Waterbury Clock Company
    Waterbury Clock Company was a prominent American manufacturer known for producing affordable clocks and watches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, later evolving into the Timex Corporation.
  • B. Waltham Watch Company
    Waltham Watch Company was a pioneering American watch manufacturer known for industrializing precision watchmaking and giving the city of Waltham, Massachusetts its nickname "Watch City."
  • C. Elgin National Watch Company
    Elgin National Watch Company was a prominent American watch manufacturer, founded in the 19th century, known for producing affordable, high-quality timepieces that helped make pocket and wristwatches widely accessible.
  • D. Seth Thomas
    Seth Thomas was a prominent 19th-century American clockmaker and industrialist whose timepieces became widely known and influential in the development of the U.S. clock industry.
  • E. Boston Manufacturing Company
    The Boston Manufacturing Company was an early 19th-century American textile firm that pioneered the integrated factory system and helped launch the Industrial Revolution 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: New Haven Clock Company
Triple: [Walter Camp, employer, New Haven Clock Company]
Generated description
The New Haven Clock Company was a prominent American manufacturer of clocks and timepieces based in New Haven, Connecticut, active from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Haven Clock Company
Target entity description: The New Haven Clock Company was a prominent American manufacturer of clocks and timepieces based in New Haven, Connecticut, active from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
  • A. Waterbury Clock Company
    Waterbury Clock Company was a prominent American manufacturer known for producing affordable clocks and watches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, later evolving into the Timex Corporation.
  • B. Waltham Watch Company
    Waltham Watch Company was a pioneering American watch manufacturer known for industrializing precision watchmaking and giving the city of Waltham, Massachusetts its nickname "Watch City."
  • C. Elgin National Watch Company
    Elgin National Watch Company was a prominent American watch manufacturer, founded in the 19th century, known for producing affordable, high-quality timepieces that helped make pocket and wristwatches widely accessible.
  • D. Seth Thomas
    Seth Thomas was a prominent 19th-century American clockmaker and industrialist whose timepieces became widely known and influential in the development of the U.S. clock industry.
  • E. Boston Manufacturing Company
    The Boston Manufacturing Company was an early 19th-century American textile firm that pioneered the integrated factory system and helped launch the Industrial Revolution 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_69d7bdfa933c8190b5a27aa4a08a19b7 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97dc76d688190bd58a23351373666 completed April 10, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af6d16388190abc848ac67bf1fb9 completed May 3, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b08df448819080c0a7b0921bcc9f completed May 3, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b121fdb881909a9a321794a3b8f1 completed May 3, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:42 p.m.