Triple
T197818
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Guns, Germs, and Steel |
E4036
|
entity |
| Predicate | publisher |
P29
|
FINISHED |
| Object | W. W. Norton & Company |
E12336
|
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: W. W. Norton & Company | Statement: [Guns, Germs, and Steel, publisher, W. W. Norton & Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. W. Norton & Company Context triple: [Guns, Germs, and Steel, publisher, W. W. Norton & Company]
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A.
W. W. Norton & Company
chosen
W. W. Norton & Company is an American independent publishing house known for its influential nonfiction, literary works, and widely used academic texts.
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B.
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing influential works of fiction and nonfiction by prominent authors.
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C.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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D.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf is a prestigious American publishing house known for its high-quality literary fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
G. P. Putnam’s Sons is a long-established American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction titles.
- 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_69a254bca59881909a15e1496f1508c7 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25bcb2c7c8190b0e031e93651182a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a33e3dc3008190a021d1b18438b773 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 7:13 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.