Triple
T18145586
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Blackwood |
E434379
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entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
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FINISHED |
| Object | William Blackwood & Sons |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: William Blackwood & Sons | Statement: [William Blackwood, employer, William Blackwood & Sons]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Blackwood & Sons Context triple: [William Blackwood, employer, William Blackwood & Sons]
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A.
William Blackwood and Sons
chosen
William Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for producing influential literary and scholarly works.
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B.
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.
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C.
John Graham & Company
John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Thomas Agnew & Sons
Thomas Agnew & Sons was a prominent 19th- and 20th-century British art dealership and print publisher known for handling major artworks and supporting leading artists and photographers.
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E.
Richard Bentley & Son
Richard Bentley & Son was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing notable works of Victorian literature and popular fiction.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b90aac308190801e2c57d8c5bfe5 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4de33921c8190b6f645ca63fd146b |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:52 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:29 a.m.