Triple
T21805532
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Wells Fargo Advisors |
E538339
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | A.G. Edwards & Sons |
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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: A.G. Edwards & Sons | Statement: [Wells Fargo Advisors, predecessor, A.G. Edwards & Sons]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A.G. Edwards & Sons Context triple: [Wells Fargo Advisors, predecessor, A.G. Edwards & Sons]
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A.
A. G. Edwards
A. G. Edwards was a Welsh Anglican clergyman who became the first Archbishop of Wales and played a key role in shaping the Church in Wales in the early 20th century.
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B.
Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
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C.
PaineWebber
PaineWebber was a major American brokerage and investment banking firm that became one of Wall Street’s prominent financial services companies before its eventual acquisition by UBS.
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D.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
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E.
Oppenheimer & Co.
chosen
Oppenheimer & Co. is a U.S.-based investment bank and financial services firm known for its brokerage, wealth management, and capital markets activities.
- 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_69e0c473f0f8819086c9d1b4a143bd67 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f07802bffc8190b383a2c89de75f74 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.