Triple

T15743972
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject May Department Stores Company E381670 entity
Predicate ownedBrand P1500 FINISHED
Object Sibley’s
Sibley’s was a prominent regional department store chain based in Rochester, New York, known for its large flagship store and role as a major upstate New York retailer in the 19th and 20th centuries.
E1173898 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: Sibley’s | Statement: [May Department Stores Company, ownedBrand, Sibley’s]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sibley’s
Context triple: [May Department Stores Company, ownedBrand, Sibley’s]
  • A. Sibley
    Sibley is a surname most notably associated with Henry Hastings Sibley, an early political and military leader in Minnesota history.
  • B. Audubon
    Audubon is a small suburban borough in Camden County, New Jersey, known primarily as a residential community near Philadelphia.
  • C. Bumpus
    Bumpus is a Chicago-based funk and soul band known for its energetic live performances and for helping launch the career of singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata.
  • D. Blakiston
    Blakiston is an English surname historically associated with notable figures such as explorer and naturalist Thomas Blakiston.
  • E. Columbina
    Columbina is a clever and flirtatious maid character from the Italian commedia dell’arte tradition, often portrayed as Harlequin’s witty counterpart and love interest.
  • 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: Sibley’s
Triple: [May Department Stores Company, ownedBrand, Sibley’s]
Generated description
Sibley’s was a prominent regional department store chain based in Rochester, New York, known for its large flagship store and role as a major upstate New York retailer in the 19th and 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sibley’s
Target entity description: Sibley’s was a prominent regional department store chain based in Rochester, New York, known for its large flagship store and role as a major upstate New York retailer in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • A. Sibley
    Sibley is a surname most notably associated with Henry Hastings Sibley, an early political and military leader in Minnesota history.
  • B. Audubon
    Audubon is a small suburban borough in Camden County, New Jersey, known primarily as a residential community near Philadelphia.
  • C. Bumpus
    Bumpus is a Chicago-based funk and soul band known for its energetic live performances and for helping launch the career of singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata.
  • D. Blakiston
    Blakiston is an English surname historically associated with notable figures such as explorer and naturalist Thomas Blakiston.
  • E. Columbina
    Columbina is a clever and flirtatious maid character from the Italian commedia dell’arte tradition, often portrayed as Harlequin’s witty counterpart and love interest.
  • 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.