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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.