Triple

T16490115
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Spottiswoode E400545 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Spottiswoode printing firm
The Spottiswoode printing firm was a prominent British printing and publishing house associated with the Spottiswoode family, known for producing high-quality books and official documents in the 19th century.
E1216263 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: Spottiswoode printing firm | Statement: [William Spottiswoode, employer, Spottiswoode printing firm]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spottiswoode printing firm
Context triple: [William Spottiswoode, employer, Spottiswoode printing firm]
  • A. David printing house
    David printing house was a prominent 18th-century Parisian printing establishment associated with the publisher Michel-Antoine David, known for producing influential works of the Enlightenment era.
  • B. Arnold Print Works
    Arnold Print Works was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century textile printing company based in North Adams, Massachusetts, known for its large industrial mill complex that later became part of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
  • C. American Stationers Company
    American Stationers Company was a 19th-century American publishing and stationery firm known for issuing literary works such as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Twice-Told Tales."
  • D. Archibald Constable & Co.
    Archibald Constable & Co. was a prominent Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential 19th-century works, including notable exploration narratives and literary titles.
  • E. E. B. Grandin print shop
    The E. B. Grandin print shop was an early 19th-century American printing establishment best known for producing the first edition of the Book of Mormon.
  • 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: Spottiswoode printing firm
Triple: [William Spottiswoode, employer, Spottiswoode printing firm]
Generated description
The Spottiswoode printing firm was a prominent British printing and publishing house associated with the Spottiswoode family, known for producing high-quality books and official documents in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spottiswoode printing firm
Target entity description: The Spottiswoode printing firm was a prominent British printing and publishing house associated with the Spottiswoode family, known for producing high-quality books and official documents in the 19th century.
  • A. David printing house
    David printing house was a prominent 18th-century Parisian printing establishment associated with the publisher Michel-Antoine David, known for producing influential works of the Enlightenment era.
  • B. Arnold Print Works
    Arnold Print Works was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century textile printing company based in North Adams, Massachusetts, known for its large industrial mill complex that later became part of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
  • C. American Stationers Company
    American Stationers Company was a 19th-century American publishing and stationery firm known for issuing literary works such as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Twice-Told Tales."
  • D. Archibald Constable & Co.
    Archibald Constable & Co. was a prominent Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential 19th-century works, including notable exploration narratives and literary titles.
  • E. E. B. Grandin print shop
    The E. B. Grandin print shop was an early 19th-century American printing establishment best known for producing the first edition of the Book of Mormon.
  • 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_69d883813098819084f5409539723b59 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32e2f31f48190825af5934d976ab7 completed April 18, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00582472388190a3c338ab636da9c6 completed May 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0059126e588190b531c145f3c155b4 completed May 10, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0059bf355c81909d6796482fe7f3e3 completed May 10, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.