Triple
T570413
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Westlaw |
E13650
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | West Publishing Company |
E19238
|
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: West Publishing Company | Statement: [Westlaw, predecessor, West Publishing Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Publishing Company Context triple: [Westlaw, predecessor, West Publishing Company]
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A.
West Publishing Company
chosen
West Publishing Company is a major American legal publishing firm best known for producing comprehensive case law reporters, legal digests, and research tools used by lawyers and courts.
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B.
Harcourt Brace & World
Harcourt Brace & World was a major American publishing company known for its influential catalog of academic, literary, and educational works in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Harper & Row
Harper & Row was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship.
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D.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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E.
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
J. B. Lippincott & Co. was a prominent American publishing house known for releasing influential literary and educational works in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- 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_69a4933fa4d88190a7949cc83c08c5c1 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49b057e708190b4e5975516e58993 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a50e219c788190888ef02fad09096e |
completed | March 2, 2026, 4:12 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.