Triple

T21719197
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject BBDO E536109 entity
Predicate foundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object Batten Company
Batten Company was an early American advertising agency that later evolved into part of the global BBDO network.
 E1497873 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: Batten Company | Statement: [BBDO, foundedAs, Batten Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Batten Company
Context triple: [BBDO, foundedAs, Batten Company]
  • A. Budd Company
    Budd Company was a pioneering American manufacturer best known for its stainless-steel railroad passenger cars and other transportation equipment.
  • B. C. F. Hathaway Company
    C. F. Hathaway Company was an American shirt manufacturer best known for its iconic mid-20th-century advertising featuring the distinguished “Hathaway Man.”
  • C. Hahn Company
    Hahn Company was a real estate development firm that became part of the lineage leading to the major North American property company TrizecHahn.
  • D. Brown Company
    Brown Company was a historically significant pulp and paper manufacturer that played a central role in the industrial and economic development of Berlin, New Hampshire.
  • E. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • 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: Batten Company
Triple: [BBDO, foundedAs, Batten Company]
Generated description
Batten Company was an early American advertising agency that later evolved into part of the global BBDO network.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Batten Company
Target entity description: Batten Company was an early American advertising agency that later evolved into part of the global BBDO network.
  • A. Budd Company
    Budd Company was a pioneering American manufacturer best known for its stainless-steel railroad passenger cars and other transportation equipment.
  • B. C. F. Hathaway Company
    C. F. Hathaway Company was an American shirt manufacturer best known for its iconic mid-20th-century advertising featuring the distinguished “Hathaway Man.”
  • C. Hahn Company
    Hahn Company was a real estate development firm that became part of the lineage leading to the major North American property company TrizecHahn.
  • D. Brown Company
    Brown Company was a historically significant pulp and paper manufacturer that played a central role in the industrial and economic development of Berlin, New Hampshire.
  • E. Hathaway Manufacturing Company
    Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • 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_69e0c46c6dd88190a595375fa6ebd701 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69efd96cc58081908dda09819041b888 completed April 27, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a24b79c108190af57665372a88c2c completed May 17, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a2698fb408190b0ad72d4fdb74ded completed May 17, 2026, 8:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a274893d8819084c55439fe1eb686 completed May 17, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:47 p.m.