Triple

T4756489
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson E105600 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Wheeler-Nicholson
Wheeler-Nicholson is the surname of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, a pioneering American comic book publisher and founder of the company that would become DC Comics.
 E468346 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: Wheeler-Nicholson | Statement: [Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, familyName, Wheeler-Nicholson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wheeler-Nicholson
Context triple: [Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, familyName, Wheeler-Nicholson]
  • A. Curtis Publishing Company
    Curtis Publishing Company was a major American publishing firm best known for producing influential mass-circulation magazines in the 20th century.
  • B. Selig Company
    Selig Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company active in the silent film era.
  • C. Hearst
    Hearst is a small, predominantly Francophone town in northern Ontario, Canada, known for its forestry industry and strong French-Canadian cultural presence.
  • D. Pulitzer Publishing Company
    Pulitzer Publishing Company was a prominent American media firm best known for owning and operating major newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  • E. Doubleday & McClure Company
    Doubleday & McClure Company was an American publishing firm active at the turn of the 20th century, known for issuing works by prominent authors such as Frank Norris.
  • 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: Wheeler-Nicholson
Triple: [Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, familyName, Wheeler-Nicholson]
Generated description
Wheeler-Nicholson is the surname of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, a pioneering American comic book publisher and founder of the company that would become DC Comics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wheeler-Nicholson
Target entity description: Wheeler-Nicholson is the surname of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, a pioneering American comic book publisher and founder of the company that would become DC Comics.
  • A. Curtis Publishing Company
    Curtis Publishing Company was a major American publishing firm best known for producing influential mass-circulation magazines in the 20th century.
  • B. Selig Company
    Selig Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company active in the silent film era.
  • C. Hearst
    Hearst is a small, predominantly Francophone town in northern Ontario, Canada, known for its forestry industry and strong French-Canadian cultural presence.
  • D. Pulitzer Publishing Company
    Pulitzer Publishing Company was a prominent American media firm best known for owning and operating major newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  • E. Doubleday & McClure Company
    Doubleday & McClure Company was an American publishing firm active at the turn of the 20th century, known for issuing works by prominent authors such as Frank Norris.
  • 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_69bd43f14cac819081c7c69803648211 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd64ec16a0819089836e4388b555f6 completed March 20, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be3a72ba908190ad9b423aea2a22b8 completed March 21, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3e760ddc8190831956fc75c9a8e9 completed March 21, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3edc5c008190b3a32df15abed8be completed March 21, 2026, 6:46 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:20 p.m.