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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.