Triple

T664186
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Washington Post E12822 entity
Predicate formerOwner P347 FINISHED
Object The Washington Post Company
The Washington Post Company was a major American media conglomerate best known for owning and publishing the influential newspaper The Washington Post before restructuring as Graham Holdings Company.
E82156 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: The Washington Post Company | Statement: [The Washington Post, formerOwner, The Washington Post Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Washington Post Company
Context triple: [The Washington Post, formerOwner, The Washington Post Company]
  • A. The New York Times Company
    The New York Times Company is a major American media organization best known as the parent company and publisher of the influential daily newspaper The New York Times, along with various digital news and media properties.
  • B. Hearst Communications
    Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
  • C. Tribune Company
    Tribune Company was a major American media conglomerate best known for owning prominent newspapers like the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, as well as various television stations.
  • D. Time Inc.
    Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
  • E. Allen Media Group
    Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
  • 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: The Washington Post Company
Triple: [The Washington Post, formerOwner, The Washington Post Company]
Generated description
The Washington Post Company was a major American media conglomerate best known for owning and publishing the influential newspaper The Washington Post before restructuring as Graham Holdings Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Washington Post Company
Target entity description: The Washington Post Company was a major American media conglomerate best known for owning and publishing the influential newspaper The Washington Post before restructuring as Graham Holdings Company.
  • A. The New York Times Company
    The New York Times Company is a major American media organization best known as the parent company and publisher of the influential daily newspaper The New York Times, along with various digital news and media properties.
  • B. Hearst Communications
    Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
  • C. Tribune Company
    Tribune Company was a major American media conglomerate best known for owning prominent newspapers like the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, as well as various television stations.
  • D. Time Inc.
    Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
  • E. Allen Media Group
    Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
  • 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_69a493355dec819098d4244b2fa34885 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49fd1f0ec819087003d30bbab2fa6 completed March 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5c39abcbc819093797700dc32d25a completed March 2, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5c564d368819082b877f43236d949 completed March 2, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5cca1851c81908e57e75dc217e517 completed March 2, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.