Triple

T13194045
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Seward Burroughs I E314065 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object American Arithmometer Company
The American Arithmometer Company was a late 19th-century U.S. manufacturer of mechanical adding machines that became a pioneer in the early office equipment industry.
E1027663 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: American Arithmometer Company | Statement: [William Seward Burroughs I, employer, American Arithmometer Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Arithmometer Company
Context triple: [William Seward Burroughs I, employer, American Arithmometer Company]
  • A. Monroe Calculating Machine Company
    Monroe Calculating Machine Company was an American manufacturer best known for its mechanical and later electronic calculators used widely in business and engineering before the rise of modern computers.
  • B. George M. Hill Company
    George M. Hill Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house best known for issuing L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
  • C. Charles L. Webster and Company
    Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
  • D. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • E. Hamilton Manufacturing Company
    Hamilton Manufacturing Company was an early 19th-century New England textile firm created by the Boston Associates as part of their pioneering industrial ventures in the American cotton industry.
  • 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: American Arithmometer Company
Triple: [William Seward Burroughs I, employer, American Arithmometer Company]
Generated description
The American Arithmometer Company was a late 19th-century U.S. manufacturer of mechanical adding machines that became a pioneer in the early office equipment industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Arithmometer Company
Target entity description: The American Arithmometer Company was a late 19th-century U.S. manufacturer of mechanical adding machines that became a pioneer in the early office equipment industry.
  • A. Monroe Calculating Machine Company
    Monroe Calculating Machine Company was an American manufacturer best known for its mechanical and later electronic calculators used widely in business and engineering before the rise of modern computers.
  • B. George M. Hill Company
    George M. Hill Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house best known for issuing L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
  • C. Charles L. Webster and Company
    Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
  • D. Steward Machine Company
    Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
  • E. Hamilton Manufacturing Company
    Hamilton Manufacturing Company was an early 19th-century New England textile firm created by the Boston Associates as part of their pioneering industrial ventures in the American cotton industry.
  • 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_69d806ae1e08819090d95bfe1538cc17 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c6158e4819082c8ad75b4dfdd90 completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f600f7a08190bcdd80d5563517c3 completed May 3, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6fa2e76fc819095f9a7e83189283c completed May 3, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6fb52f82c81909dcec658c7f58ec7 completed May 3, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.