Triple
T5350217
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hurd & Houghton |
E124157
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasSuccessor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Houghton, Osgood & Company |
E10492
|
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: Houghton, Osgood & Company | Statement: [Hurd & Houghton, hasSuccessor, Houghton, Osgood & Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houghton, Osgood & Company Context triple: [Hurd & Houghton, hasSuccessor, Houghton, Osgood & Company]
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A.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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B.
James R. Osgood & Co.
chosen
James R. Osgood & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors such as Mark Twain.
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C.
Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Hawthorn Leslie and Company was a British shipbuilding and engineering firm known for constructing naval and merchant vessels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
William A. Read & Co.
William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
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E.
Huntington, Hopkins & Co.
Huntington, Hopkins & Co. was a prominent 19th-century California mercantile and supply firm closely associated with the early commercial development of the American West.
- 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_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_69bf21d494b481909d7887cd85233815 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:55 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.