Triple

T3449776
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sanford I. Weill E72764 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
 E358192 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: Shearson Loeb Rhoades | Statement: [Sanford I. Weill, employer, Shearson Loeb Rhoades]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Context triple: [Sanford I. Weill, employer, Shearson Loeb Rhoades]
  • A. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • B. Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
  • C. Cantor Fitzgerald
    Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • D. Dean Witter Financial Services Group
    Dean Witter Financial Services Group was a major American financial services and brokerage firm that became best known as the predecessor to Discover Financial Services and later part of Morgan Stanley.
  • E. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • 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: Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Triple: [Sanford I. Weill, employer, Shearson Loeb Rhoades]
Generated description
Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Target entity description: Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
  • A. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • B. Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
  • C. Cantor Fitzgerald
    Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • D. Dean Witter Financial Services Group
    Dean Witter Financial Services Group was a major American financial services and brokerage firm that became best known as the predecessor to Discover Financial Services and later part of Morgan Stanley.
  • E. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • 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_69ad85b05c848190b7a28ceec2bd7b74 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adba7324508190b07943cec3ecdb59 completed March 8, 2026, 6:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b360eb7ad08190865e62228365d530 completed March 13, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3616dec3881908a54fa6500f7efb0 completed March 13, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b36211b6b08190ac0cac646160495d completed March 13, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:16 p.m.