Triple

T1855953
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Lee Higginson E41701 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Lee, Higginson & Co.
Lee, Higginson & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Boston investment banking firm influential in American and international finance.
 E207562 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Lee, Higginson & Co. | Statement: [Henry Lee Higginson, employer, Lee, Higginson & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lee, Higginson & Co.
Context triple: [Henry Lee Higginson, employer, Lee, Higginson & Co.]
  • A. Thayer & Eldridge
    Thayer & Eldridge was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant antislavery and reform literature, including Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
  • B. Miller, Orton & Mulligan
    Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
  • C. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
    Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
  • D. Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
    Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
  • E. Hogan & Hartson
    Hogan & Hartson was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based international law firm known for its appellate, regulatory, and public policy work before merging to form Hogan Lovells.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Lee, Higginson & Co.
Triple: [Henry Lee Higginson, employer, Lee, Higginson & Co.]
Generated description
Lee, Higginson & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Boston investment banking firm influential in American and international finance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lee, Higginson & Co.
Target entity description: Lee, Higginson & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Boston investment banking firm influential in American and international finance.
  • A. Thayer & Eldridge
    Thayer & Eldridge was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant antislavery and reform literature, including Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
  • B. Miller, Orton & Mulligan
    Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
  • C. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
    Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
  • D. Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
    Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
  • E. Hogan & Hartson
    Hogan & Hartson was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based international law firm known for its appellate, regulatory, and public policy work before merging to form Hogan Lovells.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a8864a83848190a4ec02721306c511 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb07e5ed48190a7b8858e2b355109 completed March 7, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69add1c89bdc8190acf517a7731fa5c7 completed March 8, 2026, 7:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69add25c9c208190a576cf1123c0a2e6 completed March 8, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69add32803a48190b8ff08c605790f22 completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.