Triple

T1169254
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Tobacco Company E24875 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object P. Lorillard Company E33048 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: P. Lorillard Company | Statement: [American Tobacco Company, successor, P. Lorillard Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: P. Lorillard Company
Context triple: [American Tobacco Company, successor, P. Lorillard Company]
  • A. Lorillard Tobacco Company chosen
    Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
  • B. Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
  • C. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • D. American Tobacco Company
    The American Tobacco Company was a dominant U.S. tobacco conglomerate founded in the late 19th century by James B. Duke that became one of the original antitrust "trusts" before being broken up by the federal government.
  • E. Browne & Williamson
    Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
  • 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_69a494082a7c819095004f423f294a64 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bce821b481908bc278a3fa7973f4 completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac6f17aa608190920b7df62b8dd903 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.