Triple
T18556749
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Henry B. Plant |
E453523
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Adams Express Company |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Adams Express Company | Statement: [Henry B. Plant, employer, Adams Express Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adams Express Company Context triple: [Henry B. Plant, employer, Adams Express Company]
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A.
Adams Express Company
chosen
Adams Express Company was one of the earliest and largest American express and freight delivery firms of the 19th century, playing a major role in the development of commercial transportation and logistics in the United States.
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B.
American Messenger Company
American Messenger Company was the early 20th-century Seattle-based delivery firm that evolved into the global logistics giant United Parcel Service (UPS).
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C.
Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company
The Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company was a 19th-century American stagecoach and mail transport enterprise that operated major overland routes across the western United States under the ownership of transportation magnate Benjamin Holladay.
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D.
Charles Pratt and Company
Charles Pratt and Company was a prominent 19th-century American oil refining firm that became a key component of the early Standard Oil empire.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d388b0c881908e610a1c45b52640 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e53806d2a08190963f4d8e927a247f |
completed | April 19, 2026, 8:16 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:39 a.m.