Triple
T5520136
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John G. Shedd |
E144783
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Marshall Field & Company |
E17366
|
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: Marshall Field & Company | Statement: [John G. Shedd, employer, Marshall Field & Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall Field & Company Context triple: [John G. Shedd, employer, Marshall Field & Company]
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A.
Marshall Field
chosen
Marshall Field was a prominent American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Chicago-based Marshall Field and Company department store empire.
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B.
Carson Pirie Scott
Carson Pirie Scott was a prominent Midwestern American department store chain best known for its flagship store in Chicago and its role in regional retail history.
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C.
Marshall Field Wholesale Store, Chicago
The Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago was a landmark 19th-century commercial building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, celebrated as a seminal work of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.
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D.
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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E.
R. H. Macy
R. H. Macy was an American businessman and founder of the iconic Macy’s department store chain.
- 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_69c008f873a481909b4d9f7e2db3c37d |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c01f7082ac8190a372fa75e8dec6a4 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 4:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c027e995e88190833762cb94a781cc |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.