Triple
T3282432
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ticknor, Reed & Fields |
E68902
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
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FINISHED |
| Object | William D. Ticknor & Company |
E173118
|
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: William D. Ticknor & Company | Statement: [Ticknor, Reed & Fields, predecessor, William D. Ticknor & Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William D. Ticknor & Company Context triple: [Ticknor, Reed & Fields, predecessor, William D. Ticknor & Company]
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A.
William D. Ticknor & Company
chosen
William D. Ticknor & Company was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing house known for issuing major American literary works and collaborating with authors such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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B.
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.
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C.
James Munroe and Company
James Munroe and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant literary and philosophical works, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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D.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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E.
Phillips, Sampson and Company
Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
- 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_69ad859c463481909ca4be267336c290 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb0345d448190a1f936abe7748e33 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2e85528c88190b1e98c680baf3fa8 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.