Triple

T4933293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Jacob Astor E110747 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object South West Company
South West Company was a 19th-century American fur trading enterprise established by prominent merchant and fur magnate John Jacob Astor.
E481908 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: South West Company | Statement: [John Jacob Astor, founded, South West Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South West Company
Context triple: [John Jacob Astor, founded, South West Company]
  • A. L. F. Driscoll Company
    L. F. Driscoll Company is a major construction firm known for serving as the general contractor on large-scale projects, including Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park.
  • B. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • C. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • D. The Texas Company
    The Texas Company, later known as Texaco, was a major American oil and gas corporation that became one of the world’s leading petroleum brands.
  • E. Frank Russell Company
    Frank Russell Company is a global financial services firm best known for creating and maintaining widely used stock market indexes and providing investment management and advisory services.
  • 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: South West Company
Triple: [John Jacob Astor, founded, South West Company]
Generated description
South West Company was a 19th-century American fur trading enterprise established by prominent merchant and fur magnate John Jacob Astor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South West Company
Target entity description: South West Company was a 19th-century American fur trading enterprise established by prominent merchant and fur magnate John Jacob Astor.
  • A. L. F. Driscoll Company
    L. F. Driscoll Company is a major construction firm known for serving as the general contractor on large-scale projects, including Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park.
  • B. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • C. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • D. The Texas Company
    The Texas Company, later known as Texaco, was a major American oil and gas corporation that became one of the world’s leading petroleum brands.
  • E. Frank Russell Company
    Frank Russell Company is a global financial services firm best known for creating and maintaining widely used stock market indexes and providing investment management and advisory services.
  • 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_69bd4415190c8190817bee7ec9f9f944 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd70652d988190ba4a493db510952e completed March 20, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be77b41c4c8190b4f714334242bc9b completed March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be7b9611a881908e83086719406145 completed March 21, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be7ce630248190b274547eaa15fe85 completed March 21, 2026, 11:11 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.