Triple
T3692484
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Macy's |
E78374
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Rowland Hussey Macy |
E35839
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Rowland Hussey Macy | Statement: [Macy's, founder, Rowland Hussey Macy]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rowland Hussey Macy Context triple: [Macy's, founder, Rowland Hussey Macy]
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A.
R. H. Macy
chosen
R. H. Macy was an American businessman and founder of the iconic Macy’s department store chain.
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B.
J. C. Stearns
J. C. Stearns was one of the contributing authors to the influential Franck Report on the implications of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project era.
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C.
Joseph B. Bloomingdale
Joseph B. Bloomingdale was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Bloomingdale's department store.
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D.
Edna Woolworth
Edna Woolworth was a daughter of American five-and-dime retail magnate Frank Winfield Woolworth and a member of the prominent Woolworth family.
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E.
Frank Winfield Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth was an American entrepreneur and retail pioneer who founded the F. W. Woolworth Company, one of the first and most successful five-and-dime store chains.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad85e285a081908f8cbfa9e2ed9b75 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc4e89f588190951371439a035850 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b4c3cd64c4819098f9f93a8d2efdf7 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 2:11 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.