Triple

T1483634
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houlston and Wright E29414 entity
Predicate hasSuccessor P78 FINISHED
Object Houlston and Sons
Houlston and Sons was a British publishing firm that continued the operations of the earlier Houlston and Wright, known for producing a wide range of popular and religious literature in the 19th century.
E169171 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: Houlston and Sons | Statement: [Houlston and Wright, hasSuccessor, Houlston and Sons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houlston and Sons
Context triple: [Houlston and Wright, hasSuccessor, Houlston and Sons]
  • A. J. Hinks & Son
    J. Hinks & Son was a British shipbuilding firm known for constructing the 20th-century replica of the historic Mayflower, the Mayflower II.
  • B. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • C. Hawthorn Leslie and Company
    Hawthorn Leslie and Company was a British shipbuilding and engineering firm known for constructing naval and merchant vessels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • E. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • 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: Houlston and Sons
Triple: [Houlston and Wright, hasSuccessor, Houlston and Sons]
Generated description
Houlston and Sons was a British publishing firm that continued the operations of the earlier Houlston and Wright, known for producing a wide range of popular and religious literature in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houlston and Sons
Target entity description: Houlston and Sons was a British publishing firm that continued the operations of the earlier Houlston and Wright, known for producing a wide range of popular and religious literature in the 19th century.
  • A. J. Hinks & Son
    J. Hinks & Son was a British shipbuilding firm known for constructing the 20th-century replica of the historic Mayflower, the Mayflower II.
  • B. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • C. Hawthorn Leslie and Company
    Hawthorn Leslie and Company was a British shipbuilding and engineering firm known for constructing naval and merchant vessels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • E. George Allen & Sons
    George Allen & Sons was a British publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing works by prominent authors and later evolving into the firm George Allen & Unwin.
  • 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_69a498da82e08190ba833330d05f380f completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c679714c8190ac53630fb49e19c5 completed March 1, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15b3a8548190b484a15757aee7b1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad16bc23808190ba26aa98764f3186 completed March 8, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad172912488190b77c77e4e61e0183 completed March 8, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.