Triple

T4424223
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Caterpillar Inc. E95171 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object C. L. Best Tractor Company E437168 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: C. L. Best Tractor Company | Statement: [Caterpillar Inc., predecessor, C. L. Best Tractor Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: C. L. Best Tractor Company
Context triple: [Caterpillar Inc., predecessor, C. L. Best Tractor Company]
  • A. C. L. Best Tractor Company chosen
    C. L. Best Tractor Company was an early 20th-century American manufacturer of agricultural and construction tractors that became a key predecessor to Caterpillar Inc.
  • B. International Harvester
    International Harvester was a major American manufacturer of agricultural machinery, construction equipment, trucks, and related products throughout much of the 20th century.
  • C. John Deere
    John Deere is a leading American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, best known for its green and yellow farm equipment.
  • D. J. B. Ford and Company
    J. B. Ford and Company was a 19th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular literary and religious works.
  • E. REO Motor Car Company
    REO Motor Car Company was an early 20th-century American automobile and truck manufacturer known for vehicles like the REO Speed Wagon and for helping establish the U.S. automotive industry.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554ca5208190ba2661616dcf071c completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b613683d4c8190b04f14c7a74b619a completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.