Triple
T14187108
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Richard F. Heck |
E351605
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hercules Powder Company |
E558524
|
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: Hercules Powder Company | Statement: [Richard F. Heck, employer, Hercules Powder Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hercules Powder Company Context triple: [Richard F. Heck, employer, Hercules Powder Company]
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A.
Hercules Powder Company
chosen
Hercules Powder Company was an American explosives and chemical manufacturing firm that became a major producer of industrial and military propellants and later evolved into the diversified chemical company Hercules Inc.
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B.
King Powder Company
King Powder Company was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century explosives manufacturer whose operations played a central role in the industrial and community development of Kings Mills, Ohio.
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C.
F. H. Royce & Company
F. H. Royce & Company was an early engineering firm founded by Henry Royce that specialized in electrical and mechanical equipment before evolving into the company behind Rolls-Royce automobiles.
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D.
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.
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E.
Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company
Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company was a U.S. chemical manufacturer known for being one of the producers of Agent Orange, the herbicide used extensively during the Vietnam War and later linked to serious health and environmental damage.
- 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_69d8278834a08190b0f1784e58d7b99c |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de61de509881908967ef5031f2a8d9 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd19433dc08190b4d2f1aef1b2d67d |
completed | May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:03 a.m.