Triple

T21789932
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dorr Felt E537942 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Comptometer
The Comptometer was an early key-driven mechanical calculator widely used in business and accounting before the advent of electronic calculators.
E1502408 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: Comptometer | Statement: [Dorr Felt, knownFor, Comptometer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Comptometer
Context triple: [Dorr Felt, knownFor, Comptometer]
  • A. Burroughs adding machine
    The Burroughs adding machine is a pioneering mechanical calculator that automated arithmetic operations and became widely used in offices and businesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. IBM 402 accounting machine
    The IBM 402 accounting machine was an electromechanical tabulator widely used in the mid-20th century for business data processing tasks such as sorting, tabulating, and printing information from punched cards.
  • C. IBM 407 accounting machine
    The IBM 407 accounting machine was an electromechanical punched-card tabulator widely used in mid-20th-century business data processing for tasks such as billing, payroll, and general accounting.
  • D. Remington typewriter
    The Remington typewriter was one of the first commercially successful typewriting machines, helping to popularize modern office typing and standardized keyboard layouts in the late 19th century.
  • E. Monroe Calculating Machine Company
    Monroe Calculating Machine Company was an American manufacturer best known for its mechanical and later electronic calculators used widely in business and engineering before the rise of modern computers.
  • 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: Comptometer
Triple: [Dorr Felt, knownFor, Comptometer]
Generated description
The Comptometer was an early key-driven mechanical calculator widely used in business and accounting before the advent of electronic calculators.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Comptometer
Target entity description: The Comptometer was an early key-driven mechanical calculator widely used in business and accounting before the advent of electronic calculators.
  • A. Burroughs adding machine
    The Burroughs adding machine is a pioneering mechanical calculator that automated arithmetic operations and became widely used in offices and businesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. IBM 402 accounting machine
    The IBM 402 accounting machine was an electromechanical tabulator widely used in the mid-20th century for business data processing tasks such as sorting, tabulating, and printing information from punched cards.
  • C. IBM 407 accounting machine
    The IBM 407 accounting machine was an electromechanical punched-card tabulator widely used in mid-20th-century business data processing for tasks such as billing, payroll, and general accounting.
  • D. Remington typewriter
    The Remington typewriter was one of the first commercially successful typewriting machines, helping to popularize modern office typing and standardized keyboard layouts in the late 19th century.
  • E. Monroe Calculating Machine Company
    Monroe Calculating Machine Company was an American manufacturer best known for its mechanical and later electronic calculators used widely in business and engineering before the rise of modern computers.
  • 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_69e0c47198f881908cb0d237266c10e9 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0621ed2b481909e3df17aee9cd8f7 completed April 28, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a3e74f3b8819099c9b8565afb5e2e completed May 17, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a401ceb748190a4718ea4bc7ece45 completed May 17, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a40bc29fc8190b082a1f86b2c4907 completed May 17, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:52 p.m.