Triple

T17121877
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elder-Beerman E415487 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object The Elder & Johnston Company E1250671 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: The Elder & Johnston Company | Statement: [Elder-Beerman, predecessor, The Elder & Johnston Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Elder & Johnston Company
Context triple: [Elder-Beerman, predecessor, The Elder & Johnston Company]
  • A. The Elder & Johnston Company chosen
    The Elder & Johnston Company was a historic Dayton, Ohio–based department store firm that evolved into the regional retail chain later known as Elder-Beerman.
  • B. D. W. Alderman and Sons Company
    D. W. Alderman and Sons Company was a prominent early 20th-century lumber and milling enterprise whose operations were central to the development and economy of Alcolu, South Carolina.
  • C. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d886d090cc8190a39cb94992586905 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3e80ac2cc819084fab829917c950a completed April 18, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a014147db18819083e6cfbb597687c1 completed May 11, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:36 a.m.