Triple
T4424222
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Caterpillar Inc. |
E95171
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Holt Manufacturing Company |
E437167
|
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: Holt Manufacturing Company | Statement: [Caterpillar Inc., predecessor, Holt Manufacturing Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Holt Manufacturing Company Context triple: [Caterpillar Inc., predecessor, Holt Manufacturing Company]
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A.
Holt Manufacturing Company
chosen
Holt Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American tractor and heavy machinery pioneer whose merger helped create what is now Caterpillar Inc.
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B.
Hathaway Manufacturing Company
Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
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C.
Litton Industries
Litton Industries was a major American conglomerate best known for its diversified operations in electronics, defense, and industrial manufacturing during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Hahn Company
Hahn Company was a real estate development firm that became part of the lineage leading to the major North American property company TrizecHahn.
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E.
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Lubin Manufacturing Company was an early American film production company and studio, active in the silent era and known for its role in the development of the motion picture industry.
- 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b3554ca5208190ba2661616dcf071c |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b613683d4c8190b04f14c7a74b619a |
completed | March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.