Triple
T23083877
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Wanamaker's |
E575551
|
entity |
| Predicate | acquired by |
P22682
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Woodward & Lothrop |
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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: Woodward & Lothrop | Statement: [Wanamaker's, acquired by, Woodward & Lothrop]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Woodward & Lothrop Context triple: [Wanamaker's, acquired by, Woodward & Lothrop]
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A.
Woodward & Lothrop
chosen
Woodward & Lothrop was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based department store chain that operated throughout the Mid-Atlantic region during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
D. Lothrop Company
D. Lothrop Company was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house best known for its children’s literature and religious and moral works.
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C.
A. C. McClurg & Co.
A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
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D.
Robert Appleton Company
Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
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E.
L. C. Page & Co.
L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
- 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_69e245bf3e3c819086d3448720efc01b |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18da304548190ab7a421c1ded0eb6 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:48 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:57 p.m.