Triple
T7645908
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William D. Ticknor & Company |
E173118
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Davis Ticknor |
E229157
|
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: William Davis Ticknor | Statement: [William D. Ticknor & Company, foundedBy, William Davis Ticknor]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davis Ticknor Context triple: [William D. Ticknor & Company, foundedBy, William Davis Ticknor]
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A.
William Davis Ticknor
chosen
William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
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B.
William Starr Miller
William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
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C.
John Boyd Thacher
John Boyd Thacher was an American politician, historian, and author who served as mayor of Albany, New York, and was known for his works on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
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D.
Frederick P. Cabot
Frederick P. Cabot was an American jurist and educator known for his influential work in reforming the Boston juvenile court system.
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E.
Thomas A. Bartlett
Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
- 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_69c6995360188190968ee57b72a1627f |
completed | March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6faf2aa1c8190945a691e46300ef2 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c89ad236448190886611ac9d1cc393 |
completed | March 29, 2026, 3:21 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:58 p.m.