Triple

T6929256
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Souls of Black Folk E160391 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object A. C. McClurg & Co.
A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
E628881 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: A. C. McClurg & Co. | Statement: [The Souls of Black Folk, publisher, A. C. McClurg & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A. C. McClurg & Co.
Context triple: [The Souls of Black Folk, publisher, A. C. McClurg & Co.]
  • A. L. C. Page & Co.
    L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
  • B. Charles L. Webster and Company
    Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
  • C. Frederick A. Stokes Company
    Frederick A. Stokes Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable works of literature, poetry, and children's books.
  • D. Robert Appleton Company
    Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • E. Woodward & Lothrop
    Woodward & Lothrop was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based department store chain that operated throughout the Mid-Atlantic region during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 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: A. C. McClurg & Co.
Triple: [The Souls of Black Folk, publisher, A. C. McClurg & Co.]
Generated description
A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A. C. McClurg & Co.
Target entity description: A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
  • A. L. C. Page & Co.
    L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
  • B. Charles L. Webster and Company
    Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
  • C. Frederick A. Stokes Company
    Frederick A. Stokes Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable works of literature, poetry, and children's books.
  • D. Robert Appleton Company
    Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • E. Woodward & Lothrop
    Woodward & Lothrop was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based department store chain that operated throughout the Mid-Atlantic region during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 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_69c6884e15208190b9e91487eaafcf85 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6da1f5fcc8190b43f53f90fc1821c completed March 27, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7514774d88190af212d7953014703 completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7524d677c81909531ba9bb46f2632 completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c752bef2808190843f3cad53aa5702 completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:27 p.m.