Triple
T19944741
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Citi Smith Barney |
E479392
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Smith Barney |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Smith Barney | Statement: [Citi Smith Barney, predecessor, Smith Barney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smith Barney Context triple: [Citi Smith Barney, predecessor, Smith Barney]
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A.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
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B.
Citi Smith Barney
Citi Smith Barney was a major wealth management and brokerage joint venture formed by Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, combining their retail brokerage operations into one of the world’s largest financial advisory firms.
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C.
Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
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D.
PaineWebber
PaineWebber was a major American brokerage and investment banking firm that became one of Wall Street’s prominent financial services companies before its eventual acquisition by UBS.
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E.
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smith Barney Target entity description: Smith Barney was a prominent American brokerage and investment banking firm known for providing wealth management and financial advisory services to individual and institutional clients.
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A.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
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B.
Citi Smith Barney
Citi Smith Barney was a major wealth management and brokerage joint venture formed by Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, combining their retail brokerage operations into one of the world’s largest financial advisory firms.
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C.
Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
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D.
PaineWebber
PaineWebber was a major American brokerage and investment banking firm that became one of Wall Street’s prominent financial services companies before its eventual acquisition by UBS.
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E.
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69d8e522a17c819095165d4d24939fd8 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e65a6654f481908089e1d66e17e024 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 4:55 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:54 p.m.