Triple

T18607737
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject M&T Bank E454801 entity
Predicate foundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object Manufacturers and Traders Bank
Manufacturers and Traders Bank was the original name of M&T Bank, a major American regional banking institution.
E1333687 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: Manufacturers and Traders Bank | Statement: [M&T Bank, foundedAs, Manufacturers and Traders Bank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manufacturers and Traders Bank
Context triple: [M&T Bank, foundedAs, Manufacturers and Traders Bank]
  • A. Manufacturers Trust Company Building
    The Manufacturers Trust Company Building is a landmark mid-20th-century Modernist bank building in New York City, celebrated for its glass-and-steel design and influential role in corporate architecture.
  • B. Grant and Maddison Bank
    Grant and Maddison Bank was a 19th-century British banking firm known for employing William Erasmus Darwin, the eldest son of Charles Darwin.
  • C. Hanover National Bank
    Hanover National Bank was a prominent New York City financial institution active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for serving major industrial and commercial clients before eventually becoming part of larger banking consolidations.
  • D. Mercantile Trust Company of New York
    The Mercantile Trust Company of New York was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century New York financial institution involved in trust, banking, and investment services.
  • E. Jay Cooke & Company
    Jay Cooke & Company was a prominent 19th-century American banking house best known for financing the Union war effort during the Civil War through the mass sale of government bonds.
  • 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: Manufacturers and Traders Bank
Triple: [M&T Bank, foundedAs, Manufacturers and Traders Bank]
Generated description
Manufacturers and Traders Bank was the original name of M&T Bank, a major American regional banking institution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manufacturers and Traders Bank
Target entity description: Manufacturers and Traders Bank was the original name of M&T Bank, a major American regional banking institution.
  • A. Manufacturers Trust Company Building
    The Manufacturers Trust Company Building is a landmark mid-20th-century Modernist bank building in New York City, celebrated for its glass-and-steel design and influential role in corporate architecture.
  • B. Grant and Maddison Bank
    Grant and Maddison Bank was a 19th-century British banking firm known for employing William Erasmus Darwin, the eldest son of Charles Darwin.
  • C. Hanover National Bank
    Hanover National Bank was a prominent New York City financial institution active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for serving major industrial and commercial clients before eventually becoming part of larger banking consolidations.
  • D. Mercantile Trust Company of New York
    The Mercantile Trust Company of New York was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century New York financial institution involved in trust, banking, and investment services.
  • E. Jay Cooke & Company
    Jay Cooke & Company was a prominent 19th-century American banking house best known for financing the Union war effort during the Civil War through the mass sale of government bonds.
  • 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_69d8d38bbe7c8190bdec3138e7d413c9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e547552a648190839cd8cdfed15e12 completed April 19, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a050387fe1c8190b29d4f4ad6ec4d6e completed May 13, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0504a2ee3081908fd92ea5ace4f62c completed May 13, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0505048ad081908ae23163a71a3c17 completed May 13, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m.