Triple

T4672250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject RJR Nabisco E103590 entity
Predicate competitorBidder P1375 FINISHED
Object Forstmann Little & Co.
Forstmann Little & Co. was a prominent private equity firm known for its leveraged buyouts of major U.S. companies in the 1980s.
 E462465 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: Forstmann Little & Co. | Statement: [RJR Nabisco, competitorBidder, Forstmann Little & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Forstmann Little & Co.
Context triple: [RJR Nabisco, competitorBidder, Forstmann Little & Co.]
  • A. Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
    Swan Sonnenschein & Co. was a late 19th- and early 20th-century British publishing house known for issuing scholarly, political, and social reform literature.
  • B. Wertheim & Company
    Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
  • C. Allen & Company
    Allen & Company is a private investment bank and financial advisory firm known for its work with media, technology, and entertainment companies, as well as its exclusive annual Sun Valley Conference.
  • D. J.F. Lehman & Company
    J.F. Lehman & Company is a private equity firm founded by former U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman that specializes in investments in the defense, aerospace, and maritime sectors.
  • E. Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles
    Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for its influential Brutalist designs and major civic projects.
  • 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: Forstmann Little & Co.
Triple: [RJR Nabisco, competitorBidder, Forstmann Little & Co.]
Generated description
Forstmann Little & Co. was a prominent private equity firm known for its leveraged buyouts of major U.S. companies in the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Forstmann Little & Co.
Target entity description: Forstmann Little & Co. was a prominent private equity firm known for its leveraged buyouts of major U.S. companies in the 1980s.
  • A. Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
    Swan Sonnenschein & Co. was a late 19th- and early 20th-century British publishing house known for issuing scholarly, political, and social reform literature.
  • B. Wertheim & Company
    Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
  • C. Allen & Company
    Allen & Company is a private investment bank and financial advisory firm known for its work with media, technology, and entertainment companies, as well as its exclusive annual Sun Valley Conference.
  • D. J.F. Lehman & Company
    J.F. Lehman & Company is a private equity firm founded by former U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman that specializes in investments in the defense, aerospace, and maritime sectors.
  • E. Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles
    Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for its influential Brutalist designs and major civic projects.
  • 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_69bd43dda32c8190938b37744ca270fc completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c3d1cb88190a42919dcbfe2568c completed March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be039538048190b4075daf47355cee completed March 21, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be055390c08190a85f92aec34b390a completed March 21, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be05d277248190bf675151eca07247 completed March 21, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.