Triple

T5125215
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir James Black E115566 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Smith, Kline & French
Smith, Kline & French was a major 20th-century pharmaceutical company known for developing and marketing important prescription drugs before becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline.
 E495721 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: Smith, Kline & French | Statement: [Sir James Black, employer, Smith, Kline & French]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smith, Kline & French
Context triple: [Sir James Black, employer, Smith, Kline & French]
  • A. G. D. Searle & Company
    G. D. Searle & Company was a major American pharmaceutical firm known for developing products such as the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet) before being acquired by Monsanto.
  • B. Pharmacia
    Pharmacia was a major pharmaceutical company known for its global drug development and manufacturing operations before ultimately becoming part of Pfizer.
  • C. Upjohn Company
    Upjohn Company was a prominent American pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in the 19th century, known for its innovations in drug formulation and its long-standing presence in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • D. Schering
    Schering is a German surname most notably associated with Ernst Schering, a 19th-century pharmacist and founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG.
  • E. Merck & Co.
    Merck & Co. is a major American pharmaceutical company known for developing and producing vaccines, oncology drugs, and other innovative medicines.
  • 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: Smith, Kline & French
Triple: [Sir James Black, employer, Smith, Kline & French]
Generated description
Smith, Kline & French was a major 20th-century pharmaceutical company known for developing and marketing important prescription drugs before becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smith, Kline & French
Target entity description: Smith, Kline & French was a major 20th-century pharmaceutical company known for developing and marketing important prescription drugs before becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline.
  • A. G. D. Searle & Company
    G. D. Searle & Company was a major American pharmaceutical firm known for developing products such as the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet) before being acquired by Monsanto.
  • B. Pharmacia
    Pharmacia was a major pharmaceutical company known for its global drug development and manufacturing operations before ultimately becoming part of Pfizer.
  • C. Upjohn Company
    Upjohn Company was a prominent American pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in the 19th century, known for its innovations in drug formulation and its long-standing presence in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • D. Schering
    Schering is a German surname most notably associated with Ernst Schering, a 19th-century pharmacist and founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG.
  • E. Merck & Co.
    Merck & Co. is a major American pharmaceutical company known for developing and producing vaccines, oncology drugs, and other innovative medicines.
  • 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_69bd4442ade0819087b9461f892b206b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78072b8c81908b5ac3b231f04136 completed March 20, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec4bb52fc8190b4c0cd6bc367e8eb completed March 21, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec562d0508190851b5a3307e9405b completed March 21, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec6478b848190bc09d7f6485681b4 completed March 21, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:42 p.m.