Triple
T2979836
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Charlie Munger |
E80482
|
entity |
| Predicate | boardMemberOf |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Wesco Financial Corporation
Wesco Financial Corporation was a diversified financial holding company, long controlled and led by Charlie Munger as a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate involved in insurance, investments, and other businesses.
|
E316123
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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: Wesco Financial Corporation | Statement: [Charlie Munger, boardMemberOf, Wesco Financial Corporation]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wesco Financial Corporation Context triple: [Charlie Munger, boardMemberOf, Wesco Financial Corporation]
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A.
Transamerica Corporation
Transamerica Corporation is a major American financial services company best known for its life insurance, investment, and retirement products and its iconic association with the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.
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B.
Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation is a U.S.-based bank holding company that provides retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and related financial services, primarily across the Southern and Midwestern United States.
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C.
The Hartford Financial Services Group
The Hartford Financial Services Group is a major U.S.-based insurance and financial services company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, long known as a leading center of the insurance industry.
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D.
Gulf+Western
Gulf+Western was a large American conglomerate best known for owning Paramount Pictures and diversifying across entertainment, publishing, and manufacturing in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Citizens Financial Group
Citizens Financial Group is a major U.S.-based regional bank holding company that provides a wide range of retail and commercial banking services.
- 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: Wesco Financial Corporation Triple: [Charlie Munger, boardMemberOf, Wesco Financial Corporation]
Generated description
Wesco Financial Corporation was a diversified financial holding company, long controlled and led by Charlie Munger as a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate involved in insurance, investments, and other businesses.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wesco Financial Corporation Target entity description: Wesco Financial Corporation was a diversified financial holding company, long controlled and led by Charlie Munger as a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate involved in insurance, investments, and other businesses.
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A.
Transamerica Corporation
Transamerica Corporation is a major American financial services company best known for its life insurance, investment, and retirement products and its iconic association with the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.
-
B.
Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation is a U.S.-based bank holding company that provides retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and related financial services, primarily across the Southern and Midwestern United States.
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C.
The Hartford Financial Services Group
The Hartford Financial Services Group is a major U.S.-based insurance and financial services company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, long known as a leading center of the insurance industry.
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D.
Gulf+Western
Gulf+Western was a large American conglomerate best known for owning Paramount Pictures and diversifying across entertainment, publishing, and manufacturing in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Citizens Financial Group
Citizens Financial Group is a major U.S.-based regional bank holding company that provides a wide range of retail and commercial banking services.
- 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_69ad8b15f6ac8190be5fd16a33edcb4f |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad999e91788190a2d430dd0600a660 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b108f27d648190a7a58670fec8b74d |
completed | March 11, 2026, 6:17 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b10bda5d848190af553c5f245b165d |
completed | March 11, 2026, 6:29 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b10c9198288190a3e3ea7112ea4460 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 6:32 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.