Triple

T4604267
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject August Belmont Jr. E100391 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object August Belmont & Co.
August Belmont & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American investment banking firm influential in railroad finance and public infrastructure projects.
 E455905 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: August Belmont & Co. | Statement: [August Belmont Jr., employer, August Belmont & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: August Belmont & Co.
Context triple: [August Belmont Jr., employer, August Belmont & Co.]
  • A. Henry Laurens & Company
    Henry Laurens & Company was a prominent 18th-century Charleston-based mercantile and slave-trading firm associated with American statesman and merchant Henry Laurens.
  • B. Henry Crown and Company
    Henry Crown and Company is a private, family-owned investment firm serving as the primary investment vehicle for the wealthy and influential Crown family of Chicago.
  • C. Wertheim & Company
    Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
  • D. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • E. Walker & Company
    Walker & Company is an American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles for general and young adult audiences.
  • 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: August Belmont & Co.
Triple: [August Belmont Jr., employer, August Belmont & Co.]
Generated description
August Belmont & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American investment banking firm influential in railroad finance and public infrastructure projects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: August Belmont & Co.
Target entity description: August Belmont & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American investment banking firm influential in railroad finance and public infrastructure projects.
  • A. Henry Laurens & Company
    Henry Laurens & Company was a prominent 18th-century Charleston-based mercantile and slave-trading firm associated with American statesman and merchant Henry Laurens.
  • B. Henry Crown and Company
    Henry Crown and Company is a private, family-owned investment firm serving as the primary investment vehicle for the wealthy and influential Crown family of Chicago.
  • C. Wertheim & Company
    Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
  • D. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • E. Walker & Company
    Walker & Company is an American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles for general and young adult audiences.
  • 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5999f9c88190a43309573df61159 completed March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa676b0081909f56049f466e1197 completed March 21, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfc1ee7708190bde64616c0e2a650 completed March 21, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfcd30a708190aa640230a17b4ec6 completed March 21, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.