Triple

T1534760
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brown & Williamson E32524 entity
Predicate mergedWith P77 FINISHED
Object R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (to form Reynolds American Inc.) E8259 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: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (to form Reynolds American Inc.) | Statement: [Brown & Williamson, mergedWith, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (to form Reynolds American Inc.)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (to form Reynolds American Inc.)
Context triple: [Brown & Williamson, mergedWith, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (to form Reynolds American Inc.)]
  • A. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company chosen
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • B. Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
  • C. Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
  • D. American Tobacco Company
    The American Tobacco Company was a dominant U.S. tobacco conglomerate founded in the late 19th century by James B. Duke that became one of the original antitrust "trusts" before being broken up by the federal government.
  • E. Reynolds American Inc.
    Reynolds American Inc. is a major U.S. tobacco holding company best known for owning prominent cigarette brands such as Camel and Newport.
  • 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_69a885ea86308190998f6bc14bb91f8e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90828cdf08190aa404a0c11335c7b completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad58b7e1088190af92bc0cc8fddfbe completed March 8, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.