Triple

T638822
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Berkshire Hathaway E16684 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Hathaway Manufacturing Company
Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
 E80878 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: Hathaway Manufacturing Company | Statement: [Berkshire Hathaway, predecessor, Hathaway Manufacturing Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hathaway Manufacturing Company
Context triple: [Berkshire Hathaway, predecessor, Hathaway Manufacturing Company]
  • A. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • B. Lubin Manufacturing Company
    Lubin Manufacturing Company was an early American film production company and studio, active in the silent era and known for its role in the development of the motion picture industry.
  • C. Hawthorn Leslie and Company
    Hawthorn Leslie and Company was a British shipbuilding and engineering firm known for constructing naval and merchant vessels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Harrison/Erickson Inc.
    Harrison/Erickson Inc. is a design firm best known for creating the iconic Phillie Phanatic mascot for Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies.
  • E. Spring Hill Manufacturing
    Spring Hill Manufacturing is a major automotive assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, originally built for Saturn vehicles and now operated by General Motors.
  • 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: Hathaway Manufacturing Company
Triple: [Berkshire Hathaway, predecessor, Hathaway Manufacturing Company]
Generated description
Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hathaway Manufacturing Company
Target entity description: Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
  • A. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • B. Lubin Manufacturing Company
    Lubin Manufacturing Company was an early American film production company and studio, active in the silent era and known for its role in the development of the motion picture industry.
  • C. Hawthorn Leslie and Company
    Hawthorn Leslie and Company was a British shipbuilding and engineering firm known for constructing naval and merchant vessels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Harrison/Erickson Inc.
    Harrison/Erickson Inc. is a design firm best known for creating the iconic Phillie Phanatic mascot for Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies.
  • E. Spring Hill Manufacturing
    Spring Hill Manufacturing is a major automotive assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, originally built for Saturn vehicles and now operated by General Motors.
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f00260081909d1a679182e23d10 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a57b5627788190a5381b1a50b4508d completed March 2, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a57dbe4aa88190ad6d185f8151f85b completed March 2, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a57e3b4d448190bd7f4a6249b7e3a1 completed March 2, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.