Triple

T11168980
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patrick Bateman E264226 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Pierce & Pierce
Pierce & Pierce is a prestigious Wall Street investment banking firm featured in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel and the film adaptation "American Psycho," where Patrick Bateman works as a mergers and acquisitions specialist.
E908800 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: Pierce & Pierce | Statement: [Patrick Bateman, employer, Pierce & Pierce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierce & Pierce
Context triple: [Patrick Bateman, employer, Pierce & Pierce]
  • A. Eggers & Higgins
    Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Gray & Barton
    Gray & Barton was the 19th-century telegraph equipment manufacturing firm that evolved into the major American telecommunications company later known as Western Electric.
  • C. Dewey & Almy
    Dewey & Almy was an architectural firm known for designing major mid-20th-century infrastructure projects in New York City, including the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
  • D. Reynal & Hitchcock
    Reynal & Hitchcock was an American publishing house best known for issuing the first U.S. edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella "The Little Prince."
  • E. Reilly & Britton
    Reilly & Britton was an early 20th-century American publishing house best known for issuing L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, including those featuring Princess Ozma.
  • 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: Pierce & Pierce
Triple: [Patrick Bateman, employer, Pierce & Pierce]
Generated description
Pierce & Pierce is a prestigious Wall Street investment banking firm featured in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel and the film adaptation "American Psycho," where Patrick Bateman works as a mergers and acquisitions specialist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierce & Pierce
Target entity description: Pierce & Pierce is a prestigious Wall Street investment banking firm featured in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel and the film adaptation "American Psycho," where Patrick Bateman works as a mergers and acquisitions specialist.
  • A. Eggers & Higgins
    Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Gray & Barton
    Gray & Barton was the 19th-century telegraph equipment manufacturing firm that evolved into the major American telecommunications company later known as Western Electric.
  • C. Dewey & Almy
    Dewey & Almy was an architectural firm known for designing major mid-20th-century infrastructure projects in New York City, including the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
  • D. Reynal & Hitchcock
    Reynal & Hitchcock was an American publishing house best known for issuing the first U.S. edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella "The Little Prince."
  • E. Reilly & Britton
    Reilly & Britton was an early 20th-century American publishing house best known for issuing L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, including those featuring Princess Ozma.
  • 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_69d6aa9dafac8190bd90d2c74f661aa7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8952e248190b0751669e8c960b7 completed April 9, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e463a2e2fc819086126b681d86e94b completed April 19, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e46c37efec81908aa709587c37569d completed April 19, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e47292cdd08190b05c4c8b09f4f918 completed April 19, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.