Triple

T15743978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject May Department Stores Company E381670 entity
Predicate tickerSymbol P1447 FINISHED
Object MAY
MAY was the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The May Department Stores Company, a major American department store chain that was later acquired by Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s, Inc.).
E1174254 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: MAY | Statement: [May Department Stores Company, tickerSymbol, MAY]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MAY
Context triple: [May Department Stores Company, tickerSymbol, MAY]
  • A. May D
    May D is a Nigerian singer and songwriter known for his Afropop and Afrobeat hits and collaborations with major artists in the Nigerian music industry.
  • B. Maio
    Maio is one of the main islands of Cape Verde, known for its quiet beaches, salt flats, and relatively flat, arid landscape.
  • C. May
    May is the young, unfaithful wife in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Merchant’s Tale," whose adultery and manipulation highlight the poem’s darkly comic view of marriage.
  • D. May
    May is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
  • E. Meámbar
    Meámbar is a town and municipality located in the Comayagua Department of central Honduras.
  • 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: MAY
Triple: [May Department Stores Company, tickerSymbol, MAY]
Generated description
MAY was the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The May Department Stores Company, a major American department store chain that was later acquired by Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s, Inc.).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MAY
Target entity description: MAY was the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The May Department Stores Company, a major American department store chain that was later acquired by Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s, Inc.).
  • A. May D
    May D is a Nigerian singer and songwriter known for his Afropop and Afrobeat hits and collaborations with major artists in the Nigerian music industry.
  • B. Maio
    Maio is one of the main islands of Cape Verde, known for its quiet beaches, salt flats, and relatively flat, arid landscape.
  • C. May
    May is the young, unfaithful wife in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Merchant’s Tale," whose adultery and manipulation highlight the poem’s darkly comic view of marriage.
  • D. May
    May is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
  • E. Meámbar
    Meámbar is a town and municipality located in the Comayagua Department of central Honduras.
  • 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_69ff846436e48190b711da134c9a3b81 completed May 9, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.