Triple

T2272159
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Buchanan Duke E50683 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object American Tobacco Company E24875 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: American Tobacco Company | Statement: [James Buchanan Duke, founded, American Tobacco Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: American Tobacco Company
Context triple: [James Buchanan Duke, founded, American Tobacco Company]
  • A. American Tobacco Company chosen
    The American Tobacco Company was a dominant U.S. tobacco conglomerate founded in the late 19th century by James B. Duke that became one of the original antitrust "trusts" before being broken up by the federal government.
  • B. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • C. Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
  • D. Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
  • E. Philip Morris Companies Inc.
    Philip Morris Companies Inc. was a major American tobacco and consumer products conglomerate that later restructured and rebranded as Altria Group, Inc.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1e872448190a1d6c6071b2a294b completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af835a10c081909b77315dd83a875b completed March 10, 2026, 2:35 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.