Triple

T14445420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shearson Loeb Rhoades E358192 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Loeb Rhoades
Loeb Rhoades was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s major houses before ultimately merging into what became Shearson Loeb Rhoades.
E1099545 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: Loeb Rhoades | Statement: [Shearson Loeb Rhoades, predecessor, Loeb Rhoades]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Loeb Rhoades
Context triple: [Shearson Loeb Rhoades, predecessor, Loeb Rhoades]
  • A. Thomas Loeb
    Thomas Loeb is known primarily as the brother of Richard Loeb, one of the infamous Leopold and Loeb criminal duo.
  • B. David Loeb
    David Loeb is an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the major mortgage lender Countrywide Financial.
  • C. James Loeb
    James Loeb was an American banker, philanthropist, and classical scholar best known for endowing the influential Loeb Classical Library series of Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.
  • D. Gregory Nussbaum
    Gregory Nussbaum is a film editor known for his work on the 2008 comic-book adaptation "The Spirit."
  • E. Nathan L. Hecht
    Nathan L. Hecht is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and is one of the longest-serving judges in the court’s history.
  • 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: Loeb Rhoades
Triple: [Shearson Loeb Rhoades, predecessor, Loeb Rhoades]
Generated description
Loeb Rhoades was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s major houses before ultimately merging into what became Shearson Loeb Rhoades.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Loeb Rhoades
Target entity description: Loeb Rhoades was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s major houses before ultimately merging into what became Shearson Loeb Rhoades.
  • A. Thomas Loeb
    Thomas Loeb is known primarily as the brother of Richard Loeb, one of the infamous Leopold and Loeb criminal duo.
  • B. David Loeb
    David Loeb is an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the major mortgage lender Countrywide Financial.
  • C. James Loeb
    James Loeb was an American banker, philanthropist, and classical scholar best known for endowing the influential Loeb Classical Library series of Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.
  • D. Gregory Nussbaum
    Gregory Nussbaum is a film editor known for his work on the 2008 comic-book adaptation "The Spirit."
  • E. Nathan L. Hecht
    Nathan L. Hecht is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and is one of the longest-serving judges in the court’s history.
  • 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_69d82794dfa081909b9134ad2e32244b completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de915e76f481909fe9462f964b5b1c completed April 14, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd5bdd0f388190870ddd01f66d3e99 completed May 8, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd5e188a148190bb166b7d50ad3b46 completed May 8, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd5ea592cc8190a47a2f6a511c0549 completed May 8, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:19 a.m.