Triple
T18253723
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | C. L. Best |
E437165
|
entity |
| Predicate | companyMergedInto |
P16131
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Caterpillar Tractor Co. |
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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: Caterpillar Tractor Co. | Statement: [C. L. Best, companyMergedInto, Caterpillar Tractor Co.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caterpillar Tractor Co. Context triple: [C. L. Best, companyMergedInto, Caterpillar Tractor Co.]
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A.
C. L. Best Tractor Company
chosen
C. L. Best Tractor Company was an early 20th-century American manufacturer of agricultural and construction tractors that became a key predecessor to Caterpillar Inc.
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B.
Deering Harvester Company
Deering Harvester Company was a major late-19th and early-20th century American agricultural machinery manufacturer that became a key component of International Harvester after a landmark merger.
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C.
John Deere
John Deere is a leading American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, best known for its green and yellow farm equipment.
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D.
Ruston-Bucyrus
Ruston-Bucyrus was a British engineering firm best known for producing heavy construction and excavation machinery.
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E.
Crane Industries
Crane Industries is a powerful, wealthy fictional conglomerate central to the drama and conflicts in the soap opera "Passions."
- 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.