Triple

T2103406
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William E. Simon E37139 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Salomon Brothers
Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
 E233721 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Salomon Brothers | Statement: [William E. Simon, employer, Salomon Brothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Salomon Brothers
Context triple: [William E. Simon, employer, Salomon Brothers]
  • A. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
    Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was a prominent New York investment bank of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, influential in U.S. railroad finance and the development of modern American banking.
  • E. Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities, and asset management firm headquartered in New York City.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Salomon Brothers
Triple: [William E. Simon, employer, Salomon Brothers]
Generated description
Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Salomon Brothers
Target entity description: Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • A. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
    Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was a prominent New York investment bank of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, influential in U.S. railroad finance and the development of modern American banking.
  • E. Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities, and asset management firm headquartered in New York City.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a8861828948190924aa30c08806b3a completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbabe1e9081908ea66c5406e2f1d9 completed March 7, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae3068189c81909cf76fd1fc2a0fe6 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae30f9d0448190a0b3251676d9825d completed March 9, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae316398488190b9dd38145d5488b4 completed March 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.