Triple

T9820936
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Prime Computer E238527 entity
Predicate acquiredBy P347 FINISHED
Object J.H. Whitney & Co.
J.H. Whitney & Co. is a pioneering American private equity and venture capital firm known for its early role in modern venture investing and leveraged buyouts.
E823851 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: J.H. Whitney & Co. | Statement: [Prime Computer, acquiredBy, J.H. Whitney & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J.H. Whitney & Co.
Context triple: [Prime Computer, acquiredBy, J.H. Whitney & Co.]
  • A. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • B. Guggenheim Securities
    Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets arm of Guggenheim Partners, providing advisory, financing, and related financial services to corporate and institutional clients.
  • C. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • D. Drexel, Morgan & Co.
    Drexel, Morgan & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American banking firm that served as a key predecessor to J.P. Morgan & Co. and played a major role in U.S. railroad and industrial finance.
  • E. Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
    Morgan Guaranty Trust Company was a major American banking institution and trust company that became a core component of the modern financial giant JPMorgan Chase.
  • 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: J.H. Whitney & Co.
Triple: [Prime Computer, acquiredBy, J.H. Whitney & Co.]
Generated description
J.H. Whitney & Co. is a pioneering American private equity and venture capital firm known for its early role in modern venture investing and leveraged buyouts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J.H. Whitney & Co.
Target entity description: J.H. Whitney & Co. is a pioneering American private equity and venture capital firm known for its early role in modern venture investing and leveraged buyouts.
  • A. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • B. Guggenheim Securities
    Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets arm of Guggenheim Partners, providing advisory, financing, and related financial services to corporate and institutional clients.
  • C. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • D. Drexel, Morgan & Co.
    Drexel, Morgan & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American banking firm that served as a key predecessor to J.P. Morgan & Co. and played a major role in U.S. railroad and industrial finance.
  • E. Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
    Morgan Guaranty Trust Company was a major American banking institution and trust company that became a core component of the modern financial giant JPMorgan Chase.
  • 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_69ca84dfde1481909f47c286d715f892 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb313134081908eb0ba3a22b22e2b completed April 2, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1cc78ffcc8190bb26a224350376dc completed April 5, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1cd8e7c548190bc3f10004db80925 completed April 5, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1ce1aead081908da4a85ded350c17 completed April 5, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:31 p.m.