Triple
T3843676
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William B. Waddell |
E93514
|
entity |
| Predicate | coFounded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Russell, Majors and Waddell |
E392447
|
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: Russell, Majors and Waddell | Statement: [William B. Waddell, coFounded, Russell, Majors and Waddell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell, Majors and Waddell Context triple: [William B. Waddell, coFounded, Russell, Majors and Waddell]
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A.
Russell, Majors and Waddell
chosen
Russell, Majors and Waddell was a 19th-century American freight and transportation firm best known for operating the Pony Express across the western United States.
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B.
Burnham and Root
Burnham and Root was a prominent late-19th-century Chicago architectural firm known for pioneering early skyscraper design and shaping the city’s post–Great Fire skyline.
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C.
Warren and Wetmore
Warren and Wetmore was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm best known for designing grand Beaux-Arts buildings, including major New York City landmarks such as Grand Central Terminal.
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D.
Aylott and Jones
Aylott and Jones was a 19th-century London publishing firm known for issuing early Pre-Raphaelite works, including the short-lived literary magazine *The Germ*.
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E.
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson was a renowned American acoustician celebrated for designing the acoustics of major concert halls and performance venues around the world.
- 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_69aed96ce578819084ab16e3439976c9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeebb4fd308190a636ba9dbbe57ed6 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5122ba6a4819099986e50f42f2a92 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:18 p.m.