Triple

T14696550
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hathaway Man campaign E345177 entity
Predicate brand P1500 FINISHED
Object C. F. Hathaway Company
C. F. Hathaway Company was an American shirt manufacturer best known for its iconic mid-20th-century advertising featuring the distinguished “Hathaway Man.”
E1113665 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: C. F. Hathaway Company | Statement: [Hathaway Man campaign, brand, C. F. Hathaway Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. F. Hathaway Company
Context triple: [Hathaway Man campaign, brand, C. F. Hathaway Company]
  • A. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • B. Hart-Parr Company
    Hart-Parr Company was an early 20th-century American agricultural machinery manufacturer best known for pioneering the mass production of gasoline-powered farm tractors.
  • C. F. H. Royce & Company
    F. H. Royce & Company was an early engineering firm founded by Henry Royce that specialized in electrical and mechanical equipment before evolving into the company behind Rolls-Royce automobiles.
  • D. Humphrey-Weidman Company
    The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
  • E. Turman-Foster Company
    Turman-Foster Company is a film and television production company known for producing projects such as the movie "Caveman."
  • 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: C. F. Hathaway Company
Triple: [Hathaway Man campaign, brand, C. F. Hathaway Company]
Generated description
C. F. Hathaway Company was an American shirt manufacturer best known for its iconic mid-20th-century advertising featuring the distinguished “Hathaway Man.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. F. Hathaway Company
Target entity description: C. F. Hathaway Company was an American shirt manufacturer best known for its iconic mid-20th-century advertising featuring the distinguished “Hathaway Man.”
  • A. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • B. Hart-Parr Company
    Hart-Parr Company was an early 20th-century American agricultural machinery manufacturer best known for pioneering the mass production of gasoline-powered farm tractors.
  • C. F. H. Royce & Company
    F. H. Royce & Company was an early engineering firm founded by Henry Royce that specialized in electrical and mechanical equipment before evolving into the company behind Rolls-Royce automobiles.
  • D. Humphrey-Weidman Company
    The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
  • E. Turman-Foster Company
    Turman-Foster Company is a film and television production company known for producing projects such as the movie "Caveman."
  • 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb58855e081908b38f9515db5677f completed April 14, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde19040e0819099159ed2609c6965 completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde43698e881908226ae4907910249 completed May 8, 2026, 1:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde53290a48190b3701472bb4e3d63 completed May 8, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.