Triple
T14409300
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Catholic Encyclopedia |
E357282
|
entity |
| Predicate | publisher |
P29
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert Appleton Company |
E357279
|
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: Robert Appleton Company | Statement: [Catholic Encyclopedia, publisher, Robert Appleton Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Appleton Company Context triple: [Catholic Encyclopedia, publisher, Robert Appleton Company]
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A.
Robert Appleton Company
chosen
Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
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B.
A. C. McClurg & Co.
A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
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C.
Woodward & Lothrop
Woodward & Lothrop was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based department store chain that operated throughout the Mid-Atlantic region during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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D.
P.R. Mallory and Company
P.R. Mallory and Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its innovations in electrical components and batteries, and for employing Chester Carlson before he invented xerography.
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E.
L. C. Page & Co.
L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
- 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_69d82793421c8190861eb0e673b085de |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de90c7a068819081b4b516983a1412 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 7:08 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd5524e26c81909424b5ba88b5f330 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.