Triple

T14946342
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Handasyd Perkins E372671 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Perkins & Co.
Perkins & Co. was a prominent early 19th-century Boston trading firm involved in international commerce, including the China trade.
 E1128153 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: Perkins & Co. | Statement: [Thomas Handasyd Perkins, employer, Perkins & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Perkins & Co.
Context triple: [Thomas Handasyd Perkins, employer, Perkins & Co.]
  • A. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Sullivan & Worcester
    Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
  • C. Edward Mills and Partners
    Edward Mills and Partners was a British architectural firm known for its modernist designs and significant public and commercial projects in the mid-20th century.
  • D. G. Maunsell & Partners
    G. Maunsell & Partners was a prominent British civil engineering and consulting firm known for designing major infrastructure projects, including significant bridges and transport structures worldwide.
  • E. Robert Simonds Company
    Robert Simonds Company is a film production company associated with producer Robert Simonds, known for backing mainstream Hollywood movies.
  • 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: Perkins & Co.
Triple: [Thomas Handasyd Perkins, employer, Perkins & Co.]
Generated description
Perkins & Co. was a prominent early 19th-century Boston trading firm involved in international commerce, including the China trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Perkins & Co.
Target entity description: Perkins & Co. was a prominent early 19th-century Boston trading firm involved in international commerce, including the China trade.
  • A. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Sullivan & Worcester
    Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
  • C. Edward Mills and Partners
    Edward Mills and Partners was a British architectural firm known for its modernist designs and significant public and commercial projects in the mid-20th century.
  • D. G. Maunsell & Partners
    G. Maunsell & Partners was a prominent British civil engineering and consulting firm known for designing major infrastructure projects, including significant bridges and transport structures worldwide.
  • E. Robert Simonds Company
    Robert Simonds Company is a film production company associated with producer Robert Simonds, known for backing mainstream Hollywood movies.
  • 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_69d85cca979481908747d2a81eba1cea completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded68e35c481908e47cd68441c5115 completed April 15, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe7e963c548190b3a06ffbbb3298b2 completed May 9, 2026, 12:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe807eaa208190a478f0d0599ef695 completed May 9, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe811c14448190b85d94244adcd662 completed May 9, 2026, 12:34 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:39 a.m.