Triple

T15743967
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject May Department Stores Company E381670 entity
Predicate ownedBrand P1500 FINISHED
Object The Jones Store Company
The Jones Store Company was a regional American department store chain based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its full-line retail offerings before being absorbed into larger national brands.
E1173896 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: The Jones Store Company | Statement: [May Department Stores Company, ownedBrand, The Jones Store Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Jones Store Company
Context triple: [May Department Stores Company, ownedBrand, The Jones Store Company]
  • A. Allied Stores Corporation
    Allied Stores Corporation was a major American department store holding company that owned and operated numerous regional retail chains across the United States during the 20th century.
  • B. Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company
    Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company was a historic department store that eventually evolved into the modern upscale retailer now known as Von Maur.
  • C. F. W. Woolworth Company
    The F. W. Woolworth Company was a pioneering American retail chain that popularized the five-and-dime store concept and helped shape modern mass-market merchandising.
  • D. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • E. J. T. Buckingham and Company
    J. T. Buckingham and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for producing influential literary and cultural periodicals in New England.
  • 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: The Jones Store Company
Triple: [May Department Stores Company, ownedBrand, The Jones Store Company]
Generated description
The Jones Store Company was a regional American department store chain based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its full-line retail offerings before being absorbed into larger national brands.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Jones Store Company
Target entity description: The Jones Store Company was a regional American department store chain based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its full-line retail offerings before being absorbed into larger national brands.
  • A. Allied Stores Corporation
    Allied Stores Corporation was a major American department store holding company that owned and operated numerous regional retail chains across the United States during the 20th century.
  • B. Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company
    Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company was a historic department store that eventually evolved into the modern upscale retailer now known as Von Maur.
  • C. F. W. Woolworth Company
    The F. W. Woolworth Company was a pioneering American retail chain that popularized the five-and-dime store concept and helped shape modern mass-market merchandising.
  • D. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • E. J. T. Buckingham and Company
    J. T. Buckingham and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for producing influential literary and cultural periodicals in New England.
  • 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_69d86d9e6b44819085d1f6a969ecb74c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0502c0c3c8190b8e512df307039c1 completed April 16, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff8307824881909ba85e4c3da65d28 completed May 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff83ca33d08190816130bf2ea735df completed May 9, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff8469354c819080b8cfddb7c66be5 completed May 9, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.