Triple

T6171878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis) E137720 entity
Predicate tenant P75 FINISHED
Object Famous-Barr department store
Famous-Barr was a prominent St. Louis–based department store chain that became a key regional retail institution in the Midwestern United States.
E381670 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: Famous-Barr department store | Statement: [Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis), tenant, Famous-Barr department store]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Famous-Barr department store
Context triple: [Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis), tenant, Famous-Barr department store]
  • A. Barneys New York department store
    Barneys New York department store was a luxury American department store chain renowned for its high-end designer fashion and influential role in contemporary retail culture.
  • B. Gimbels department store
    Gimbels department store is a now-defunct American department store chain historically based in New York City and known for its rivalry with Macy’s.
  • C. Liberty department store
    Liberty department store is a famous London luxury retailer known for its distinctive mock-Tudor building and eclectic range of fashion, beauty, homeware, and iconic printed fabrics.
  • D. May Department Stores Company
    May Department Stores Company was a major American department store holding company that operated numerous regional chains before being acquired by Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s, Inc.).
  • E. Bloomingdale's
    Bloomingdale's is a high-end American department store chain known for its designer fashion, luxury goods, and flagship locations in major cities.
  • 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: Famous-Barr department store
Triple: [Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis), tenant, Famous-Barr department store]
Generated description
Famous-Barr was a prominent St. Louis–based department store chain that became a key regional retail institution in the Midwestern United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Famous-Barr department store
Target entity description: Famous-Barr was a prominent St. Louis–based department store chain that became a key regional retail institution in the Midwestern United States.
  • A. Barneys New York department store
    Barneys New York department store was a luxury American department store chain renowned for its high-end designer fashion and influential role in contemporary retail culture.
  • B. Gimbels department store
    Gimbels department store is a now-defunct American department store chain historically based in New York City and known for its rivalry with Macy’s.
  • C. Liberty department store
    Liberty department store is a famous London luxury retailer known for its distinctive mock-Tudor building and eclectic range of fashion, beauty, homeware, and iconic printed fabrics.
  • D. May Department Stores Company chosen
    May Department Stores Company was a major American department store holding company that operated numerous regional chains before being acquired by Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s, Inc.).
  • E. Bloomingdale's
    Bloomingdale's is a high-end American department store chain known for its designer fashion, luxury goods, and flagship locations in major cities.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c008a68c508190a8d78245c865960e completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05d9319548190980c99f692bd4115 completed March 22, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c141ad559881909076b6ab34b14f2b completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c14889a3b48190bf5d523cbc261d7c completed March 23, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c148de2d64819094d623e7f3b0f5f8 completed March 23, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:18 p.m.