Triple
T1806793
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Morton Thiokol |
E40238
|
entity |
| Predicate | formedByMergerOf |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Morton-Norwich Products Inc. |
E175057
|
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: Morton-Norwich Products Inc. | Statement: [Morton Thiokol, formedByMergerOf, Morton-Norwich Products Inc.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morton-Norwich Products Inc. Context triple: [Morton Thiokol, formedByMergerOf, Morton-Norwich Products Inc.]
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A.
Morton International
chosen
Morton International was a major American chemical company best known for its salt products and specialty chemicals before being acquired by larger conglomerates.
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B.
Hathaway Manufacturing Company
Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a New England textile firm that later became part of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
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C.
Endicott Johnson Corporation
Endicott Johnson Corporation was a major American shoe and leather manufacturer that played a central role in the industrial and social history of Endicott, New York, particularly in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Graham-Newman Corporation
Graham-Newman Corporation was an influential mid-20th-century investment partnership known for pioneering value investing principles under Benjamin Graham’s leadership.
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E.
Dorchester Company
Dorchester Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company involved in early colonial ventures, particularly in New England.
- 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_69a88643a3388190a612f2ebe1fb29e7 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aa6598bd388190b5aa69b972cc8f0a |
completed | March 6, 2026, 5:26 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69adb5df20948190943a60c209270b62 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.