Triple
T13194046
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Seward Burroughs I |
E314065
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | American Arithmometer Company |
E1027663
|
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: American Arithmometer Company | Statement: [William Seward Burroughs I, founded, 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, founded, American Arithmometer Company]
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A.
American Arithmometer Company
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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."
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D.
Burroughs adding machine
The Burroughs adding machine is a pioneering mechanical calculator that automated arithmetic operations and became widely used in offices and businesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
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.
- 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_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_69f6ff177ba88190afb2043cc157248d |
completed | May 3, 2026, 7:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.