Triple

T6004482
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Liggett & Myers E133676 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object U.S. tobacco industry
The U.S. tobacco industry is a major American economic sector encompassing companies that manufacture, market, and sell tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco, and has long been central to public health debates and regulatory efforts.
E561070 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: U.S. tobacco industry | Statement: [Liggett & Myers, partOf, U.S. tobacco industry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. tobacco industry
Context triple: [Liggett & Myers, partOf, U.S. tobacco industry]
  • A. Report on the American Tobacco Company
    "Report on the American Tobacco Company" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations that analyzed the structure, practices, and monopolistic power of the American Tobacco Company.
  • B. United States v. American Tobacco Co.
    United States v. American Tobacco Co. was a landmark 1911 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that led to the breakup of the American Tobacco Company under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • C. Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
  • D. FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
    FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. is a landmark 2000 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Food and Drug Administration lacked authority under existing law to regulate tobacco products as customarily marketed.
  • E. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • 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: U.S. tobacco industry
Triple: [Liggett & Myers, partOf, U.S. tobacco industry]
Generated description
The U.S. tobacco industry is a major American economic sector encompassing companies that manufacture, market, and sell tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco, and has long been central to public health debates and regulatory efforts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. tobacco industry
Target entity description: The U.S. tobacco industry is a major American economic sector encompassing companies that manufacture, market, and sell tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco, and has long been central to public health debates and regulatory efforts.
  • A. Report on the American Tobacco Company
    "Report on the American Tobacco Company" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations that analyzed the structure, practices, and monopolistic power of the American Tobacco Company.
  • B. United States v. American Tobacco Co.
    United States v. American Tobacco Co. was a landmark 1911 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that led to the breakup of the American Tobacco Company under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • C. Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
  • D. FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
    FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. is a landmark 2000 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Food and Drug Administration lacked authority under existing law to regulate tobacco products as customarily marketed.
  • E. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • 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_69c00872444c8190bfaf1739dcec765c completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04f10d18081908c351170b7f58d3d completed March 22, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1088f5c84819094e4696c24c4dd79 completed March 23, 2026, 9:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1099f00f88190a5f1f0fafbb679c2 completed March 23, 2026, 9:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c10a2ffdcc8190bfeebc59d98b2b29 completed March 23, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:06 p.m.