Triple
T1866487
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ticknor and Fields |
E34932
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Houghton, Osgood and Company |
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: Houghton, Osgood and Company | Statement: [Ticknor and Fields, successor, Houghton, Osgood and Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houghton, Osgood and Company Context triple: [Ticknor and Fields, successor, Houghton, Osgood and Company]
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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.
Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Hawthorn Leslie and Company was a British shipbuilding and engineering firm known for constructing naval and merchant vessels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
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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E.
John P. Jewett & Company
John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
- 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_69adeae06e5c8190b20cce9c047f6087 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.