Triple

T356604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David C. Acheson E7556 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling is a prominent international law firm based in Washington, D.C., known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters.
 E45634 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: Covington & Burling | Statement: [David C. Acheson, employer, Covington & Burling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Covington & Burling
Context triple: [David C. Acheson, employer, Covington & Burling]
  • A. Sidley Austin LLP
    Sidley Austin LLP is a major international law firm headquartered in Chicago, known for its corporate, litigation, and regulatory practices.
  • B. Perkins Coie
    Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
  • C. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
    Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
  • D. Miller, Orton & Mulligan
    Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
  • E. Waddell & Hardesty
    Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Covington & Burling
Triple: [David C. Acheson, employer, Covington & Burling]
Generated description
Covington & Burling is a prominent international law firm based in Washington, D.C., known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Covington & Burling
Target entity description: Covington & Burling is a prominent international law firm based in Washington, D.C., known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters.
  • A. Sidley Austin LLP
    Sidley Austin LLP is a major international law firm headquartered in Chicago, known for its corporate, litigation, and regulatory practices.
  • B. Perkins Coie
    Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
  • C. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
    Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
  • D. Miller, Orton & Mulligan
    Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
  • E. Waddell & Hardesty
    Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69a2e7e696948190bebc966535995e45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ebaf0c9881909313f98818e7fa58 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e57647d481908d42b10ddebf3ff7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e61ad63c8190940eaba657cd3df2 completed March 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e668e05c8190ba92c581622756df completed March 1, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.