Triple
T18253674
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Caterpillar Inc. |
E437164
|
entity |
| Predicate | formedByMergerOf |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Holt Manufacturing Company |
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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: Holt Manufacturing Company | Statement: [Caterpillar Inc., formedByMergerOf, Holt Manufacturing Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Holt Manufacturing Company Context triple: [Caterpillar Inc., formedByMergerOf, Holt Manufacturing Company]
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A.
Holt Manufacturing Company
chosen
Holt Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American tractor and heavy machinery pioneer whose merger helped create what is now Caterpillar Inc.
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B.
Walker Manufacturing Company
Walker Manufacturing Company was the business enterprise founded by Madam C. J. Walker that produced and sold her pioneering hair care products for African American women.
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C.
Walworth Manufacturing Company
Walworth Manufacturing Company was a prominent industrial firm in Kewanee, Illinois, best known for producing valves and related metal products that contributed significantly to the city’s manufacturing heritage.
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D.
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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E.
Nashua Manufacturing Company
Nashua Manufacturing Company was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century textile manufacturer that played a central role in the industrial and economic development of Nashua, New Hampshire.
- 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_69d8b913351c8190932b6a426de04b41 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4fd82f81c81909ad4455954bd8caa |
completed | April 19, 2026, 4:06 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:33 a.m.