Triple
T4756503
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson |
E105600
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Inc. |
E105600
|
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: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Inc. | Statement: [Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, founded, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Inc.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Inc. Context triple: [Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, founded, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Inc.]
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A.
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
chosen
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was an American pulp writer and comic book pioneer who created the company that would evolve into DC Comics, helping to launch the modern comic book industry.
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B.
American Publishing Company
American Publishing Company was a 19th-century U.S. publishing house best known for issuing major works by authors such as Mark Twain, including classic American literature.
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C.
Curtis Publishing Company
Curtis Publishing Company was a major American publishing firm best known for producing influential mass-circulation magazines in the 20th century.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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_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_69be43b54f548190b6118305d2a9f8d4 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:20 p.m.