Triple
T1866486
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ticknor and Fields |
E34932
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James R. Osgood & Co. |
E10492
|
NE FINISHED |
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: James R. Osgood & Co. | Statement: [Ticknor and Fields, successor, James R. Osgood & Co.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James R. Osgood & Co. Context triple: [Ticknor and Fields, successor, James R. Osgood & Co.]
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A.
James R. Osgood & Co.
chosen
James R. Osgood & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors such as Mark Twain.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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E.
Thayer & Eldridge
Thayer & Eldridge was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant antislavery and reform literature, including Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88600b2f88190bc09303e68ab517e |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb0b5978c81909390f2cbd716ccaf |
completed | March 7, 2026, 4:59 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69addf5163d88190a41df4c8f4e196f0 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 8:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.