Triple
T14912005
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Woodward & Lothrop |
E371283
|
entity |
| Predicate | parentCompany |
P254
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Woodward & Lothrop, Incorporated |
E371283
|
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: Woodward & Lothrop, Incorporated | Statement: [Woodward & Lothrop, parentCompany, Woodward & Lothrop, Incorporated]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Woodward & Lothrop, Incorporated Context triple: [Woodward & Lothrop, parentCompany, Woodward & Lothrop, Incorporated]
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A.
Woodward & Lothrop
chosen
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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B.
D. Lothrop Company
D. Lothrop Company was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house best known for its children’s literature and religious and moral works.
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C.
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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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.
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.
- 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_69d85cc7ea3481908228b5acb7d06f12 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ded61d75008190b6f9a1a38137836f |
completed | April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe72bb366481909706d511f5ae1290 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 11:33 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:26 a.m.