Triple
T7337747
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Houlston and Sons |
E169171
|
entity |
| Predicate | successorOf |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Houlston and Wright |
E29414
|
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: Houlston and Wright | Statement: [Houlston and Sons, successorOf, Houlston and Wright]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houlston and Wright Context triple: [Houlston and Sons, successorOf, Houlston and Wright]
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A.
Houlston and Wright
chosen
Houlston and Wright was a 19th-century British publishing firm known for producing popular household and reference works.
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B.
Aylott and Jones
Aylott and Jones was a 19th-century London publishing firm known for issuing early Pre-Raphaelite works, including the short-lived literary magazine *The Germ*.
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C.
Howells & Stokes
Howells & Stokes was an early 20th-century American architectural firm known for designing prominent commercial and institutional buildings, particularly in New York City.
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D.
Hurd & Houghton
Hurd & Houghton was a 19th-century American publishing firm that became part of the lineage leading to the modern educational and trade publisher Houghton Mifflin.
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E.
Houlston and Sons
Houlston and Sons was a British publishing firm that continued the operations of the earlier Houlston and Wright, known for producing a wide range of popular and religious literature in the 19th century.
- 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_69c68a568a6481908f11e20db7bc8446 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6f0d599c88190875514eae7084f8d |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:04 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7fa82498c8190b1898a8c27cec71d |
completed | March 28, 2026, 3:57 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:04 p.m.