Triple

T7113404
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Altria Group E165757 entity
Predicate owns P347 FINISHED
Object John Middleton Company
John Middleton Company is a U.S. tobacco manufacturer best known for producing machine-made cigars and pipe tobacco brands such as Black & Mild.
 E642847 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: John Middleton Company | Statement: [Altria Group, owns, John Middleton Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Middleton Company
Context triple: [Altria Group, owns, John Middleton Company]
  • A. A. C. McClurg & Co.
    A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
  • B. The Margaret Fink Company
    The Margaret Fink Company is an Australian film production company best known for producing the acclaimed period drama "My Brilliant Career."
  • C. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • D. L. C. Page & Co.
    L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
  • E. Robert Appleton Company
    Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • 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: John Middleton Company
Triple: [Altria Group, owns, John Middleton Company]
Generated description
John Middleton Company is a U.S. tobacco manufacturer best known for producing machine-made cigars and pipe tobacco brands such as Black & Mild.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Middleton Company
Target entity description: John Middleton Company is a U.S. tobacco manufacturer best known for producing machine-made cigars and pipe tobacco brands such as Black & Mild.
  • A. A. C. McClurg & Co.
    A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
  • B. The Margaret Fink Company
    The Margaret Fink Company is an Australian film production company best known for producing the acclaimed period drama "My Brilliant Career."
  • C. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • D. L. C. Page & Co.
    L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
  • E. Robert Appleton Company
    Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • 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_69c6888120f081908f8f01b201dc4a4c completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e5ef813c8190bec0ab0cbae430e5 completed March 27, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c79cbc35d48190974e207eb98dcbe3 completed March 28, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c79d31a9e8819096e6a3040b1852a9 completed March 28, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79dcae54c8190b06e687236373f68 completed March 28, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:43 p.m.