Triple

T536404
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. W. Norton & Company E12336 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Warder Norton
William Warder Norton was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known for establishing the independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
E103479 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: William Warder Norton | Statement: [W. W. Norton & Company, foundedBy, William Warder Norton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Warder Norton
Context triple: [W. W. Norton & Company, foundedBy, William Warder Norton]
  • A. Joseph Henry White
    Joseph Henry White, better known as Jo Jo White, was an American Hall of Fame basketball player famed for his standout career with the Boston Celtics in the 1970s.
  • B. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • C. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • D. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • E. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • 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: William Warder Norton
Triple: [W. W. Norton & Company, foundedBy, William Warder Norton]
Generated description
William Warder Norton was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known for establishing the independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Warder Norton
Target entity description: William Warder Norton was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known for establishing the independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
  • A. Joseph Henry White
    Joseph Henry White, better known as Jo Jo White, was an American Hall of Fame basketball player famed for his standout career with the Boston Celtics in the 1970s.
  • B. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • C. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • D. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • E. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • 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_69a4933208e88190891f5debab1b776d completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a496da8e108190b4874c3b85290464 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b830bf5c81908784e8146987eb96 completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7ba8dd7408190b5ee7688e45f2473 completed March 4, 2026, 4:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7bc1da490819097fe1e60e3e93ba4 completed March 4, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.