Triple

T16169590
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McCann Erickson E392398 entity
Predicate formerName P65 FINISHED
Object H. K. McCann Company
H. K. McCann Company was the original advertising agency founded by Harrison King McCann that later evolved into the global marketing firm McCann Erickson.
E1198363 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: H. K. McCann Company | Statement: [McCann Erickson, formerName, H. K. McCann Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H. K. McCann Company
Context triple: [McCann Erickson, formerName, H. K. McCann Company]
  • A. W. W. Hodkinson Corporation
    W. W. Hodkinson Corporation was an early American film distribution and production company associated with pioneering movie executive W. W. Hodkinson, a key figure in the development of the Hollywood studio system.
  • B. Humphrey-Weidman Company
    The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
  • C. C. F. Hathaway Company
    C. F. Hathaway Company was an American shirt manufacturer best known for its iconic mid-20th-century advertising featuring the distinguished “Hathaway Man.”
  • D. J. E. Greiner Company
    J. E. Greiner Company was an American engineering and consulting firm known for its prominent bridge and transportation infrastructure designs in the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
    The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th century.
  • 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: H. K. McCann Company
Triple: [McCann Erickson, formerName, H. K. McCann Company]
Generated description
H. K. McCann Company was the original advertising agency founded by Harrison King McCann that later evolved into the global marketing firm McCann Erickson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H. K. McCann Company
Target entity description: H. K. McCann Company was the original advertising agency founded by Harrison King McCann that later evolved into the global marketing firm McCann Erickson.
  • A. W. W. Hodkinson Corporation
    W. W. Hodkinson Corporation was an early American film distribution and production company associated with pioneering movie executive W. W. Hodkinson, a key figure in the development of the Hollywood studio system.
  • B. Humphrey-Weidman Company
    The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
  • C. C. F. Hathaway Company
    C. F. Hathaway Company was an American shirt manufacturer best known for its iconic mid-20th-century advertising featuring the distinguished “Hathaway Man.”
  • D. J. E. Greiner Company
    J. E. Greiner Company was an American engineering and consulting firm known for its prominent bridge and transportation infrastructure designs in the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
    The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d87f1d32208190942e4e499a80c18c completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21eb5e6d881908749683091afa90c completed April 17, 2026, 11:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7bb6aac8190a33607abfe9a32d0 completed May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff9bb09c48190881c0f70bae0aec8 completed May 10, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fffa5186b88190971d3c5061503541 completed May 10, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:02 a.m.