Triple
T2838896
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
E62415
|
entity |
| Predicate | formedByMergerOf |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object | A. Leslie and Company |
E62415
|
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: A. Leslie and Company | Statement: [Hawthorn Leslie and Company, formedByMergerOf, A. Leslie and Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A. Leslie and Company Context triple: [Hawthorn Leslie and Company, formedByMergerOf, A. Leslie and Company]
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A.
Hawthorn Leslie and Company
chosen
Hawthorn Leslie and Company was a British shipbuilding and engineering firm known for constructing naval and merchant vessels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
John Graham & Company
John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
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C.
J.W. Foster and Sons
J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
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D.
J. W. Steere & Son
J. W. Steere & Son was a prominent American pipe organ building firm known for crafting high-quality instruments for churches and concert halls in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
William A. Read & Co.
William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
- 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_69ab4c3d16bc81908b3a1c98fbd287fe |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abdef015bc81909f6a2ff17b22862f |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:16 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b01d7705108190a986d3def0c08f7b |
completed | March 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:01 p.m.