Triple

T16264643
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Abram Stevens Hewitt E394842 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Cooper, Hewitt & Company
Cooper, Hewitt & Company was a prominent 19th-century American iron and steel manufacturing firm known for its role in industrializing the United States.
E1203730 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: Cooper, Hewitt & Company | Statement: [Abram Stevens Hewitt, coFounded, Cooper, Hewitt & Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cooper, Hewitt & Company
Context triple: [Abram Stevens Hewitt, coFounded, Cooper, Hewitt & Company]
  • A. Edwin H. Morris & Co.
    Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
  • B. 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.
  • C. George H. Doran Company
    George H. Doran Company was a prominent early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors, including popular fiction and significant literary titles.
  • D. Whitworth & Co.
    Whitworth & Co. was the engineering and manufacturing firm founded by Sir Joseph Whitworth, renowned for its precision machine tools and contributions to standardizing screw threads in the 19th century.
  • E. P.R. Mallory and Company
    P.R. Mallory and Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its innovations in electrical components and batteries, and for employing Chester Carlson before he invented xerography.
  • 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: Cooper, Hewitt & Company
Triple: [Abram Stevens Hewitt, coFounded, Cooper, Hewitt & Company]
Generated description
Cooper, Hewitt & Company was a prominent 19th-century American iron and steel manufacturing firm known for its role in industrializing the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cooper, Hewitt & Company
Target entity description: Cooper, Hewitt & Company was a prominent 19th-century American iron and steel manufacturing firm known for its role in industrializing the United States.
  • A. Edwin H. Morris & Co.
    Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
  • B. 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.
  • C. George H. Doran Company
    George H. Doran Company was a prominent early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors, including popular fiction and significant literary titles.
  • D. Whitworth & Co.
    Whitworth & Co. was the engineering and manufacturing firm founded by Sir Joseph Whitworth, renowned for its precision machine tools and contributions to standardizing screw threads in the 19th century.
  • E. P.R. Mallory and Company
    P.R. Mallory and Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its innovations in electrical components and batteries, and for employing Chester Carlson before he invented xerography.
  • 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_69d87f221d8081909b0b2063e7528ba2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e245c73944819085633e6d2a69bae9 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0017b877088190893a1f012e5d2463 completed May 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00183849bc8190a1896d240d8f91f0 completed May 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00190887088190a5a0eb2cfd674c98 completed May 10, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.