Triple

T10178472
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Meriden silver industry E235918 entity
Predicate hasNotableCompany P19182 FINISHED
Object Meriden Silver Plate Company
Meriden Silver Plate Company was a prominent American manufacturer of silver-plated tableware and decorative items based in Meriden, Connecticut, active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E844875 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: Meriden Silver Plate Company | Statement: [Meriden silver industry, hasNotableCompany, Meriden Silver Plate Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meriden Silver Plate Company
Context triple: [Meriden silver industry, hasNotableCompany, Meriden Silver Plate Company]
  • A. Wilcox Silver Plate Company
    Wilcox Silver Plate Company was a prominent American manufacturer of silver-plated wares, later incorporated into the larger International Silver Company conglomerate.
  • B. Revere Copper Company
    Revere Copper Company is an American industrial firm historically known as one of the earliest and most influential copper rolling and manufacturing companies in the United States.
  • C. Holmes & Edwards Silver Company
    Holmes & Edwards Silver Company was a prominent American silverware manufacturer known for its silver-plated flatware and hollowware designs, later operating as a subsidiary of the International Silver Company.
  • D. Derby Silver Company
    Derby Silver Company was an American silverware and hollowware manufacturer known for its ornate Victorian-era designs and later incorporation into the International Silver Company conglomerate.
  • E. Barbour Silver Company
    Barbour Silver Company was an American silverware and silver-plated goods manufacturer known for its ornate Victorian and early 20th-century designs, later operating as part of the International Silver Company conglomerate.
  • 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: Meriden Silver Plate Company
Triple: [Meriden silver industry, hasNotableCompany, Meriden Silver Plate Company]
Generated description
Meriden Silver Plate Company was a prominent American manufacturer of silver-plated tableware and decorative items based in Meriden, Connecticut, active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meriden Silver Plate Company
Target entity description: Meriden Silver Plate Company was a prominent American manufacturer of silver-plated tableware and decorative items based in Meriden, Connecticut, active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Wilcox Silver Plate Company
    Wilcox Silver Plate Company was a prominent American manufacturer of silver-plated wares, later incorporated into the larger International Silver Company conglomerate.
  • B. Revere Copper Company
    Revere Copper Company is an American industrial firm historically known as one of the earliest and most influential copper rolling and manufacturing companies in the United States.
  • C. Holmes & Edwards Silver Company
    Holmes & Edwards Silver Company was a prominent American silverware manufacturer known for its silver-plated flatware and hollowware designs, later operating as a subsidiary of the International Silver Company.
  • D. Derby Silver Company
    Derby Silver Company was an American silverware and hollowware manufacturer known for its ornate Victorian-era designs and later incorporation into the International Silver Company conglomerate.
  • E. Barbour Silver Company
    Barbour Silver Company was an American silverware and silver-plated goods manufacturer known for its ornate Victorian and early 20th-century designs, later operating as part of the International Silver Company conglomerate.
  • 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_69ca84d1d5f88190ab878a1021ecff68 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdecd620808190892c6e3074500280 completed April 2, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d3012d11488190a410d389034da887 completed April 6, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d30256ee40819098569b37eb27d3d1 completed April 6, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d302d248e08190b6b7bae9343b6f9a completed April 6, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:11 p.m.