Triple
T5000882
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | May Company Wilshire |
E112368
|
entity |
| Predicate | originalOwner |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object | May Company |
E381670
|
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: May Company | Statement: [May Company Wilshire, originalOwner, May Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: May Company Context triple: [May Company Wilshire, originalOwner, May Company]
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A.
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward was a pioneering American mail-order and department store retailer that became one of the largest and most influential retail chains in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. was a major American retail company and mail-order catalog pioneer that became one of the largest and most influential department store chains in the United States.
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C.
May Department Stores Company
chosen
May Department Stores Company was a major American department store holding company that operated numerous regional chains before being acquired by Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s, Inc.).
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D.
J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
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E.
May Company Wilshire
May Company Wilshire is a historic Streamline Moderne department store building in Los Angeles, renowned for its iconic gold-tiled cylinder and later adaptation into part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures complex.
- 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_69bd4432b32c81909f3b3c6bd10f0653 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd72bd90948190bf6ca21237402949 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be8a3a5a108190a028920b1ae0be7a |
completed | March 21, 2026, 12:08 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:34 p.m.