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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.