Triple

T1489131
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Evangeline E29535 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object William D. Ticknor & Company
William D. Ticknor & Company was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing house known for issuing major American literary works and collaborating with authors such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
E173118 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: William D. Ticknor & Company | Statement: [Evangeline, publisher, William D. Ticknor & Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William D. Ticknor & Company
Context triple: [Evangeline, publisher, William D. Ticknor & Company]
  • A. William A. Read & Co.
    William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
  • B. James Munroe and Company
    James Munroe and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant literary and philosophical works, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  • C. Phillips, Sampson and Company
    Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
  • D. 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.
  • E. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • 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: William D. Ticknor & Company
Triple: [Evangeline, publisher, William D. Ticknor & Company]
Generated description
William D. Ticknor & Company was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing house known for issuing major American literary works and collaborating with authors such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William D. Ticknor & Company
Target entity description: William D. Ticknor & Company was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing house known for issuing major American literary works and collaborating with authors such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • A. William A. Read & Co.
    William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
  • B. James Munroe and Company
    James Munroe and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant literary and philosophical works, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  • C. Phillips, Sampson and Company
    Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
  • D. 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.
  • E. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • 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_69a4c6a6095481909e9d406ac9a41828 completed March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad232f4b80819095a608816d4d2a34 completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad2501b82481908133bd9233a84267 completed March 8, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2589c01081909f4b5cff5fe650e1 completed March 8, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.