Triple

T4082534
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John F. Lehman E87508 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object J.F. Lehman & Company
J.F. Lehman & Company is a private equity firm founded by former U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman that specializes in investments in the defense, aerospace, and maritime sectors.
E411547 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: J.F. Lehman & Company | Statement: [John F. Lehman, employer, J.F. Lehman & Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J.F. Lehman & Company
Context triple: [John F. Lehman, employer, J.F. Lehman & Company]
  • A. Wertheim & Company
    Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
    Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was a prominent New York investment bank of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, influential in U.S. railroad finance and the development of modern American banking.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: J.F. Lehman & Company
Triple: [John F. Lehman, employer, J.F. Lehman & Company]
Generated description
J.F. Lehman & Company is a private equity firm founded by former U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman that specializes in investments in the defense, aerospace, and maritime sectors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J.F. Lehman & Company
Target entity description: J.F. Lehman & Company is a private equity firm founded by former U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman that specializes in investments in the defense, aerospace, and maritime sectors.
  • A. Wertheim & Company
    Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
    Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was a prominent New York investment bank of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, influential in U.S. railroad finance and the development of modern American banking.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69aed9435cf48190ad1da737c962d19d completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefc77dab481909bcf197daf2def59 completed March 9, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b562c6456081908cca823ebb13936a completed March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b563b5cc108190bb9684abafa608af completed March 14, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5646606f08190930451ac372154cd completed March 14, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.