Triple

T11712965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man E278417 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object Sherman, French & Company
Sherman, French & Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works such as James Weldon Johnson’s "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."
 E942054 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: Sherman, French & Company | Statement: [The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, publisher, Sherman, French & Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sherman, French & Company
Context triple: [The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, publisher, Sherman, French & Company]
  • A. Edwin H. Morris & Co.
    Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Phillips, Sampson and Company
    Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
  • C. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • D. Rinehart & Company
    Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Sherman, French & Company
Triple: [The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, publisher, Sherman, French & Company]
Generated description
Sherman, French & Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works such as James Weldon Johnson’s "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sherman, French & Company
Target entity description: Sherman, French & Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works such as James Weldon Johnson’s "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."
  • A. Edwin H. Morris & Co.
    Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Phillips, Sampson and Company
    Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
  • C. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • D. Rinehart & Company
    Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69d6aaff2ce88190b4a1e4b341ad5377 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a4be10088190854699385d1f6a95 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef838562d08190b9a764e88c50d423 completed April 27, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef9b68309081909f3f614efeeb2ab1 completed April 27, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69efd6aba82c81909ff22e6b26db3cfe completed April 27, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.