Triple
T15261900
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cyrus West Field |
E364797
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
E. Root and Company
E. Root and Company was a 19th-century New York mercantile and financial firm known for employing future transatlantic telegraph pioneer Cyrus West Field.
|
E1146637
|
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: E. Root and Company | Statement: [Cyrus West Field, employer, E. Root and Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. Root and Company Context triple: [Cyrus West Field, employer, E. Root and Company]
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A.
Brown & Root
Brown & Root is a major American engineering and construction company historically known for large-scale industrial, infrastructure, and government projects.
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B.
P.R. Mallory and Company
P.R. Mallory and Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its innovations in electrical components and batteries, and for employing Chester Carlson before he invented xerography.
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C.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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D.
Frank Russell Company
Frank Russell Company is a global financial services firm best known for creating and maintaining widely used stock market indexes and providing investment management and advisory services.
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E.
Randolph, Elder and Company
Randolph, Elder and Company was the original shipbuilding firm that evolved into the prominent Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on the River Clyde in Scotland.
- 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: E. Root and Company Triple: [Cyrus West Field, employer, E. Root and Company]
Generated description
E. Root and Company was a 19th-century New York mercantile and financial firm known for employing future transatlantic telegraph pioneer Cyrus West Field.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. Root and Company Target entity description: E. Root and Company was a 19th-century New York mercantile and financial firm known for employing future transatlantic telegraph pioneer Cyrus West Field.
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A.
Brown & Root
Brown & Root is a major American engineering and construction company historically known for large-scale industrial, infrastructure, and government projects.
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B.
P.R. Mallory and Company
P.R. Mallory and Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its innovations in electrical components and batteries, and for employing Chester Carlson before he invented xerography.
-
C.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
-
D.
Frank Russell Company
Frank Russell Company is a global financial services firm best known for creating and maintaining widely used stock market indexes and providing investment management and advisory services.
-
E.
Randolph, Elder and Company
Randolph, Elder and Company was the original shipbuilding firm that evolved into the prominent Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on the River Clyde in Scotland.
- 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_69d85a0f08408190b3c3259ae35d79d2 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e0084e85a08190b8e63598b9f6a535 |
completed | April 15, 2026, 9:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fee5fb8b30819096d31ba5884715c9 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 7:44 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fee805f5bc8190a6095e3c374f3441 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 7:53 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fee8e4dc688190bd597f8d710c8afc |
completed | May 9, 2026, 7:57 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:14 a.m.