Triple

T2979993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bank of America E80485 entity
Predicate brand P1500 FINISHED
Object Merrill
Merrill is the wealth management and brokerage division of Bank of America, offering investment advice, financial planning, and related services to individual and institutional clients.
 E316129 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: Merrill | Statement: [Bank of America, brand, Merrill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Merrill
Context triple: [Bank of America, brand, Merrill]
  • A. Merrill
    Merrill is a surname most notably associated with American actor Gary Merrill, known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
  • B. Hayes
    Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
  • C. McCauley
    McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • D. Widnall
    Widnall is the surname of Sheila Widnall, an American aerospace engineer and former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
  • E. Brewster
    Brewster is the given name of Brewster Kahle, an American computer engineer and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive.
  • 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: Merrill
Triple: [Bank of America, brand, Merrill]
Generated description
Merrill is the wealth management and brokerage division of Bank of America, offering investment advice, financial planning, and related services to individual and institutional clients.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Merrill
Target entity description: Merrill is the wealth management and brokerage division of Bank of America, offering investment advice, financial planning, and related services to individual and institutional clients.
  • A. Merrill
    Merrill is a surname most notably associated with American actor Gary Merrill, known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
  • B. Hayes
    Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
  • C. McCauley
    McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • D. Widnall
    Widnall is the surname of Sheila Widnall, an American aerospace engineer and former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
  • E. Brewster
    Brewster is the given name of Brewster Kahle, an American computer engineer and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive.
  • 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_69ad8b15f6ac8190be5fd16a33edcb4f completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad999e91788190a2d430dd0600a660 completed March 8, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b108f27d648190a7a58670fec8b74d completed March 11, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b10bda5d848190af553c5f245b165d completed March 11, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b10c9198288190a3e3ea7112ea4460 completed March 11, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.