Triple
T20245175
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Whyte Black |
E498404
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Smith, Kline & French |
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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: Smith, Kline & French | Statement: [James Whyte Black, employer, Smith, Kline & French]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smith, Kline & French Context triple: [James Whyte Black, employer, Smith, Kline & French]
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A.
Smith, Kline & French
chosen
Smith, Kline & French was a major 20th-century pharmaceutical company known for developing and marketing important prescription drugs before becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline.
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B.
Rhône-Poulenc Rorer
Rhône-Poulenc Rorer was a major French-American pharmaceutical company known for developing important cancer therapies and later becoming part of Sanofi through mergers.
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C.
G. D. Searle & Company
G. D. Searle & Company was a major American pharmaceutical firm known for developing products such as the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet) before being acquired by Monsanto.
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D.
Burroughs Wellcome Company
Burroughs Wellcome Company was a pioneering American pharmaceutical firm known for its significant contributions to drug research and development in the 20th century.
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E.
Pharmacia
Pharmacia was a major pharmaceutical company known for its global drug development and manufacturing operations before ultimately becoming part of Pfizer.
- 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_69da6274c58c81909c646eabed6f4f30 |
completed | April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e673a10ab48190a408a5d2c2b0808b |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:42 p.m. |
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:40 p.m.