Triple

T4367195
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wayman Crow E98804 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Crow, McCreery & Co.
Crow, McCreery & Co. was a prominent 19th-century St. Louis mercantile firm and dry goods house known for its significant role in regional commerce and trade.
 E433748 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: Crow, McCreery & Co. | Statement: [Wayman Crow, employer, Crow, McCreery & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Crow, McCreery & Co.
Context triple: [Wayman Crow, employer, Crow, McCreery & Co.]
  • A. Eggers & Higgins
    Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Pratt & McClain
    Pratt & McClain was a 1970s American pop duo best known for recording TV theme songs, most notably the hit theme for "Happy Days."
  • C. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Rinehart & Company
    Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
  • E. Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
    Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
  • 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: Crow, McCreery & Co.
Triple: [Wayman Crow, employer, Crow, McCreery & Co.]
Generated description
Crow, McCreery & Co. was a prominent 19th-century St. Louis mercantile firm and dry goods house known for its significant role in regional commerce and trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Crow, McCreery & Co.
Target entity description: Crow, McCreery & Co. was a prominent 19th-century St. Louis mercantile firm and dry goods house known for its significant role in regional commerce and trade.
  • A. Eggers & Higgins
    Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Pratt & McClain
    Pratt & McClain was a 1970s American pop duo best known for recording TV theme songs, most notably the hit theme for "Happy Days."
  • C. Holabird & Roche
    Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Rinehart & Company
    Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
  • E. Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
    Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
  • 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35201be7081908808e81634060f95 completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dbcec90881908fe83c83119d99fe completed March 14, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dc3e4c488190a06421cdb3b168c3 completed March 14, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e0432bfc8190b18bbe918de1f297 completed March 14, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.