Triple
T23122671
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Charles E. Merrill |
E576938
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entity |
| Predicate | coFounded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Merrill Lynch |
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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: Merrill Lynch | Statement: [Charles E. Merrill, coFounded, Merrill Lynch]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merrill Lynch Context triple: [Charles E. Merrill, coFounded, Merrill Lynch]
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A.
Merrill Lynch
chosen
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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B.
Smith Barney
Smith Barney was a prominent American brokerage and investment banking firm known for providing wealth management and financial advisory services to individual and institutional clients.
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C.
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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D.
Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments is a major American multinational financial services corporation best known for its mutual funds, brokerage services, and retirement investment products.
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E.
Salomon Brothers
Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
- 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_69e245f6c2e881909a228fdcfeb7c7d3 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18e517a0481909829a73fdf255d1c |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:59 p.m.