Triple

T549449
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Scarlet Letter E11805 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
E68902 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: Ticknor, Reed & Fields | Statement: [The Scarlet Letter, publisher, Ticknor, Reed & Fields]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Context triple: [The Scarlet Letter, publisher, Ticknor, Reed & Fields]
  • A. Miller, Orton & Mulligan
    Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
  • B. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
    Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
  • C. Waddell & Hardesty
    Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
  • D. Dillon, Read & Co.
    Dillon, Read & Co. was a prominent American investment bank known for its influential role in Wall Street finance during the 20th century.
  • E. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Triple: [The Scarlet Letter, publisher, Ticknor, Reed & Fields]
Generated description
Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Target entity description: Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • A. Miller, Orton & Mulligan
    Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
  • B. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
    Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
  • C. Waddell & Hardesty
    Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
  • D. Dillon, Read & Co.
    Dillon, Read & Co. was a prominent American investment bank known for its influential role in Wall Street finance during the 20th century.
  • E. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49901e4e481909a5ed93c21ab37bd completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e0301ea08190ada81259b7c862f6 completed March 2, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e09ce7a48190b29e364be6317081 completed March 2, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e10dc17881908399e10b705381cd completed March 2, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.