Triple

T7252138
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cyrus McCormick E157627 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company was a pioneering 19th-century American agricultural machinery manufacturer that revolutionized farming through the mass production and commercialization of mechanical reapers.
 E651267 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: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Statement: [Cyrus McCormick, knownFor, McCormick Harvesting Machine Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
Context triple: [Cyrus McCormick, knownFor, McCormick Harvesting Machine Company]
  • A. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • B. C. L. Best Tractor Company
    C. L. Best Tractor Company was an early 20th-century American manufacturer of agricultural and construction tractors that became a key predecessor to Caterpillar Inc.
  • C. The Progressive Farmer Company
    The Progressive Farmer Company is a publishing firm best known for originating the lifestyle magazine Southern Living.
  • D. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • E. Hillenbrand
    Hillenbrand is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as diplomacy, literature, and sports.
  • 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: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
Triple: [Cyrus McCormick, knownFor, McCormick Harvesting Machine Company]
Generated description
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company was a pioneering 19th-century American agricultural machinery manufacturer that revolutionized farming through the mass production and commercialization of mechanical reapers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
Target entity description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company was a pioneering 19th-century American agricultural machinery manufacturer that revolutionized farming through the mass production and commercialization of mechanical reapers.
  • A. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • B. C. L. Best Tractor Company
    C. L. Best Tractor Company was an early 20th-century American manufacturer of agricultural and construction tractors that became a key predecessor to Caterpillar Inc.
  • C. The Progressive Farmer Company
    The Progressive Farmer Company is a publishing firm best known for originating the lifestyle magazine Southern Living.
  • D. Dickson Manufacturing Company
    Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
  • E. Hillenbrand
    Hillenbrand is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as diplomacy, literature, and sports.
  • 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_69c6882d81d4819085f7ff862951ee4f completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ea7ae0e48190bd80c91bad1976c6 completed March 27, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7d3a7502081909d2a97a60cc445ae completed March 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7d4690adc81909abbfb7a756f453d completed March 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7d517a7108190893878cbef7d1a3a completed March 28, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:56 p.m.