Triple

T2219148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Macmillan Publishers E48100 entity
Predicate ownedBy P347 FINISHED
Object Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a German media conglomerate known for its global book and academic publishing operations, including ownership of major imprints such as Macmillan.
 E49808 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: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group | Statement: [Macmillan Publishers, ownedBy, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Context triple: [Macmillan Publishers, ownedBy, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group]
  • A. Egmont Group
    Egmont Group is an international network of national financial intelligence units that collaborate to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes.
  • B. Bertelsmann
    Bertelsmann is a major German multinational media, services, and education conglomerate known for owning prominent publishing and broadcasting companies worldwide.
  • C. Guardian Media Group
    Guardian Media Group is a British media company that owns and operates The Guardian and related news and media assets.
  • D. Hearst Communications
    Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
  • E. Encyclopaedia Britannica Group
    Encyclopaedia Britannica Group is the corporate entity that oversees the Encyclopaedia Britannica brand and its related educational and reference publishing operations.
  • 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: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Triple: [Macmillan Publishers, ownedBy, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group]
Generated description
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a German media conglomerate known for its global book and academic publishing operations, including ownership of major imprints such as Macmillan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Target entity description: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a German media conglomerate known for its global book and academic publishing operations, including ownership of major imprints such as Macmillan.
  • A. Egmont Group
    Egmont Group is an international network of national financial intelligence units that collaborate to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes.
  • B. Bertelsmann chosen
    Bertelsmann is a major German multinational media, services, and education conglomerate known for owning prominent publishing and broadcasting companies worldwide.
  • C. Guardian Media Group
    Guardian Media Group is a British media company that owns and operates The Guardian and related news and media assets.
  • D. Hearst Communications
    Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
  • E. Encyclopaedia Britannica Group
    Encyclopaedia Britannica Group is the corporate entity that oversees the Encyclopaedia Britannica brand and its related educational and reference publishing operations.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a88aa1ee708190862c8c378c41e9eb completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc011d50c8190b1c375cc633f8189 completed March 7, 2026, 6:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7efdb7a08190b74e841279b59971 completed March 9, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7f90d3a88190bf61c6f063b67c06 completed March 9, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae800868948190a5504969c4cabb7d completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.