Triple
T21465200
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Spring Merriam |
E529576
|
entity |
| Predicate | affiliation |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object | G. & C. Merriam 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: G. & C. Merriam Company | Statement: [George Spring Merriam, affiliation, G. & C. Merriam Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: G. & C. Merriam Company Context triple: [George Spring Merriam, affiliation, G. & C. Merriam Company]
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A.
G. & C. Merriam Company
chosen
G. & C. Merriam Company was a prominent American publishing firm best known as the original publisher of Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
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B.
Charles H. Kerr & Company
Charles H. Kerr & Company is a historic American radical publishing house best known for its socialist, labor, and anarchist literature.
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C.
D. C. Heath & Co.
D. C. Heath & Co. was an American educational publishing company known for producing influential textbooks and academic works in fields such as philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences.
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D.
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
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E.
Riverside Press
Riverside Press was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American printing and publishing house based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality book production.
- 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_69e0c458133481908ae8b41a12c4edec |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e9e9f1b3cc819092c200f09c6f461e |
completed | April 23, 2026, 9:44 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:09 p.m.