Triple

T2251596
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Herndon E49628 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Lincoln & Herndon law firm
Lincoln & Herndon was a 19th-century Springfield, Illinois law partnership best known as Abraham Lincoln’s most prominent and longest-running law firm.
 E246672 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: Lincoln & Herndon law firm | Statement: [William Herndon, coFounded, Lincoln & Herndon law firm]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lincoln & Herndon law firm
Context triple: [William Herndon, coFounded, Lincoln & Herndon law firm]
  • 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. Hasbrouck Donovan
    Hasbrouck Donovan is one of the children of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
  • C. Ticknor, Reed & Fields
    Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • D. Seabury & Johnson
    Seabury & Johnson was a 19th-century American medical products company that became an early predecessor to Johnson & Johnson.
  • E. Lee, Higginson & Co.
    Lee, Higginson & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Boston investment banking firm influential in American and international finance.
  • 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: Lincoln & Herndon law firm
Triple: [William Herndon, coFounded, Lincoln & Herndon law firm]
Generated description
Lincoln & Herndon was a 19th-century Springfield, Illinois law partnership best known as Abraham Lincoln’s most prominent and longest-running law firm.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lincoln & Herndon law firm
Target entity description: Lincoln & Herndon was a 19th-century Springfield, Illinois law partnership best known as Abraham Lincoln’s most prominent and longest-running law firm.
  • 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. Hasbrouck Donovan
    Hasbrouck Donovan is one of the children of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
  • C. Ticknor, Reed & Fields
    Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • D. Seabury & Johnson
    Seabury & Johnson was a 19th-century American medical products company that became an early predecessor to Johnson & Johnson.
  • E. Lee, Higginson & Co.
    Lee, Higginson & Co. was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century Boston investment banking firm influential in American and international finance.
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc11d04688190abc04fac3a1804a9 completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1bc424819087b2ce9a6256a180 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6be0d108819085cf8c531d08db65 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c0fc220819090b254cc20b1bc26 completed March 9, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.