Triple
T10799130
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Washington Duke |
E254790
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | W. Duke, Sons & Company |
E133675
|
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: W. Duke, Sons & Company | Statement: [Washington Duke, founded, W. Duke, Sons & Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. Duke, Sons & Company Context triple: [Washington Duke, founded, W. Duke, Sons & Company]
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A.
W. Duke, Sons & Co.
chosen
W. Duke, Sons & Co. was a prominent late-19th-century American cigarette manufacturer that became a core predecessor to the American Tobacco Company trust.
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B.
Brown Brothers & Co.
Brown Brothers & Co. was a prominent early American private banking firm that later became part of the modern financial institution Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
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C.
Henry Laurens & Company
Henry Laurens & Company was a prominent 18th-century Charleston-based mercantile and slave-trading firm associated with American statesman and merchant Henry Laurens.
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D.
Walker & Company
Walker & Company is an American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles for general and young adult audiences.
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E.
Brewster & Co.
Brewster & Co. was a prestigious American coachbuilding firm renowned for crafting luxurious custom bodies for high-end automobiles in the early 20th 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d73334feb08190aae967eaa37659f7 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 5:03 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69de566352608190ab15e3a4b690c9a5 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 2:59 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:17 p.m.