Triple
T18707459
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Midland Chemical Company |
E457408
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalRole |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object | predecessor to Dow Chemical 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: predecessor to Dow Chemical Company | Statement: [Midland Chemical Company, historicalRole, predecessor to Dow Chemical Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: predecessor to Dow Chemical Company Context triple: [Midland Chemical Company, historicalRole, predecessor to Dow Chemical Company]
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A.
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Chemical Company is a major American multinational chemical corporation known for producing a wide range of industrial, agricultural, and consumer chemical products.
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B.
Allied Chemical Corporation
Allied Chemical Corporation was a major American chemical manufacturing company that became one of the predecessors of Honeywell through mergers and diversification in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Pemberton Chemical Company
Pemberton Chemical Company was a pharmaceutical and chemical business founded and operated by John Stith Pemberton, the inventor of the original Coca-Cola formula.
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D.
Midland Chemical Company
chosen
Midland Chemical Company was an early American chemical manufacturing firm established in the late 19th century by industrial chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who later founded the Dow Chemical Company.
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E.
Rohm and Haas
Rohm and Haas is a specialty chemicals company known for producing advanced materials and chemical products used in coatings, electronics, and industrial applications.
- 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_69d8d392aad081909fe31aa03e6e97d1 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e567185c648190848ca47498eb56b3 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 11:36 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:50 a.m.