Triple
T5350212
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hurd & Houghton |
E124157
|
entity |
| Predicate | partOfCorporateLineageOf |
P37738
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Houghton Mifflin Company |
E23328
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Houghton Mifflin Company | Statement: [Hurd & Houghton, partOfCorporateLineageOf, Houghton Mifflin Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houghton Mifflin Company Context triple: [Hurd & Houghton, partOfCorporateLineageOf, Houghton Mifflin Company]
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A.
Houghton Mifflin
chosen
Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
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B.
D. C. Heath & Co.
D. C. Heath & Co. was an American educational publishing company known for producing influential textbooks and academic works in fields such as philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences.
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C.
Harcourt Brace & World
Harcourt Brace & World was a major American publishing company known for its influential catalog of academic, literary, and educational works in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Holt, Rinehart and Winston is an American publishing company known for producing a wide range of educational textbooks and notable works of literature.
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E.
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing influential works of fiction and nonfiction by prominent authors.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: partOfCorporateLineageOf Context triple: [Hurd & Houghton, partOfCorporateLineageOf, Houghton Mifflin Company]
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A.
isCorporatePrecursorOf
chosen
Indicates that one corporate entity is a predecessor in the organizational or legal lineage of another corporate entity, such as through merger, acquisition, or reorganization.
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B.
hasParentCompany
Indicates that one company is owned or controlled by another company that serves as its parent organization.
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C.
hasParentCompanyType
Indicates that an entity is associated with a parent company of a specified organizational or business type.
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D.
ultimateParentCompany
Indicates that one company is the highest-level controlling entity in a corporate ownership structure, with no parent company above it.
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E.
parentOrganizationOfFoundedCompany
Indicates that an organization is the parent entity of a company that it has founded.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69bd464be27081908807b40b75c1bbae |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd860fe4048190846a933d0e1b9386 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf4873ff0881908390c12767e18bb5 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69bd845c6f108190832a8d14b356368a |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:31 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.