Triple
T3521055
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Merchandise Mart |
E74421
|
entity |
| Predicate | originalOwner |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Marshall Field & Company |
E17366
|
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: Marshall Field & Company | Statement: [Merchandise Mart, originalOwner, Marshall Field & Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall Field & Company Context triple: [Merchandise Mart, originalOwner, Marshall Field & Company]
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A.
Marshall Field
chosen
Marshall Field was a prominent American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Chicago-based Marshall Field and Company department store empire.
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B.
Marshall Field Wholesale Store, Chicago
The Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago was a landmark 19th-century commercial building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, celebrated as a seminal work of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.
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C.
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward was a pioneering American mail-order and department store retailer that became one of the largest and most influential retail chains in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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D.
R. H. Macy
R. H. Macy was an American businessman and founder of the iconic Macy’s department store chain.
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E.
Jordan Marsh
Jordan Marsh was a prominent New England-based department store chain that operated for over a century before being absorbed into larger retail brands.
- 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_69ad85d0c5488190a3d8e02ebd01a1aa |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adbc4c6ac8819096e9c773f3cccbfb |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:13 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b38bc74a208190b3fe59e7b56a3d0d |
completed | March 13, 2026, 4 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.