Triple

T536405
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. W. Norton & Company E12336 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Mary Dows Herter Norton
Mary Dows Herter Norton was an American publisher, editor, and translator best known as the co-founder of the independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
E210962 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: Mary Dows Herter Norton | Statement: [W. W. Norton & Company, foundedBy, Mary Dows Herter Norton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Dows Herter Norton
Context triple: [W. W. Norton & Company, foundedBy, Mary Dows Herter Norton]
  • A. Nancy Packard Burnett
    Nancy Packard Burnett is an American philanthropist and member of the Packard family who has supported environmental, educational, and cultural initiatives.
  • B. Frances Loeb
    Frances Loeb was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the former wife of television producer Norman Lear and as the founder of the feminist magazine Ms. Magazine.
  • C. Ellen Ewing Sherman
    Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
  • D. Marian Cannon Schlesinger
    Marian Cannon Schlesinger was an American artist, illustrator, and memoirist known for her portraits, political cartoons, and vivid recollections of intellectual life in 20th-century Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • E. Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger
    Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger was an American civic leader and advocate for women’s history whose legacy is honored through the naming of Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
  • 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: Mary Dows Herter Norton
Triple: [W. W. Norton & Company, foundedBy, Mary Dows Herter Norton]
Generated description
Mary Dows Herter Norton was an American publisher, editor, and translator best known as the co-founder of the independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Dows Herter Norton
Target entity description: Mary Dows Herter Norton was an American publisher, editor, and translator best known as the co-founder of the independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
  • A. Nancy Packard Burnett
    Nancy Packard Burnett is an American philanthropist and member of the Packard family who has supported environmental, educational, and cultural initiatives.
  • B. Frances Loeb
    Frances Loeb was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the former wife of television producer Norman Lear and as the founder of the feminist magazine Ms. Magazine.
  • C. Ellen Ewing Sherman
    Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
  • D. Marian Cannon Schlesinger
    Marian Cannon Schlesinger was an American artist, illustrator, and memoirist known for her portraits, political cartoons, and vivid recollections of intellectual life in 20th-century Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • E. Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger
    Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger was an American civic leader and advocate for women’s history whose legacy is honored through the naming of Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
  • 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_69a4933208e88190891f5debab1b776d completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a496da8e108190b4874c3b85290464 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeaaaad508190992c7b50e9397450 completed March 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb1ee4648190afd50782988b115c completed March 8, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adeb9f28dc8190a0493a72153c60e6 completed March 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.