Triple

T18280679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York & Company E437854 entity
Predicate foundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object Lerner Shops
Lerner Shops was a prominent American women’s apparel retail chain that evolved into the modern fashion brand New York & Company.
E1315338 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: Lerner Shops | Statement: [New York & Company, foundedAs, Lerner Shops]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lerner Shops
Context triple: [New York & Company, foundedAs, Lerner Shops]
  • A. Schlesinger & Mayer Store
    The Schlesinger & Mayer Store is a landmark Chicago department store building celebrated as one of architect Louis Sullivan’s finest examples of early commercial skyscraper design.
  • B. Kaufmann’s department store
    Kaufmann’s department store was a prominent Pittsburgh-based retail chain best known for its flagship downtown store and its association with the Kaufmann family, patrons of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • C. Ohrbach’s department store
    Ohrbach’s department store was a mid-20th-century American discount department store chain known for its fashionable yet affordable clothing and prominent urban locations, including its former flagship in Los Angeles.
  • D. Meier & Frank
    Meier & Frank was a prominent regional department store chain based in Portland, Oregon, known for its flagship downtown store and long history in the Pacific Northwest before being absorbed into Macy’s.
  • E. Spencer Shops
    Spencer Shops is a historic former Southern Railway steam locomotive repair facility in North Carolina that now serves as part of the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
  • 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: Lerner Shops
Triple: [New York & Company, foundedAs, Lerner Shops]
Generated description
Lerner Shops was a prominent American women’s apparel retail chain that evolved into the modern fashion brand New York & Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lerner Shops
Target entity description: Lerner Shops was a prominent American women’s apparel retail chain that evolved into the modern fashion brand New York & Company.
  • A. Schlesinger & Mayer Store
    The Schlesinger & Mayer Store is a landmark Chicago department store building celebrated as one of architect Louis Sullivan’s finest examples of early commercial skyscraper design.
  • B. Kaufmann’s department store
    Kaufmann’s department store was a prominent Pittsburgh-based retail chain best known for its flagship downtown store and its association with the Kaufmann family, patrons of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • C. Ohrbach’s department store
    Ohrbach’s department store was a mid-20th-century American discount department store chain known for its fashionable yet affordable clothing and prominent urban locations, including its former flagship in Los Angeles.
  • D. Meier & Frank
    Meier & Frank was a prominent regional department store chain based in Portland, Oregon, known for its flagship downtown store and long history in the Pacific Northwest before being absorbed into Macy’s.
  • E. Spencer Shops
    Spencer Shops is a historic former Southern Railway steam locomotive repair facility in North Carolina that now serves as part of the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
  • 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_69d8b914530c8190b4474d862a2b2a1b completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e50055d2b88190a10199771f64c4b9 completed April 19, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03b3ffe1508190948d41bed9853a3e completed May 12, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03b4bb6ae48190a68c2a3314f0d3ba completed May 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03b56958a0819088613a9726c71819 completed May 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.