Triple
T7755821
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Boston Associates |
E175892
|
entity |
| Predicate | established |
P41
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Merrimack Manufacturing Company |
E443789
|
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: Merrimack Manufacturing Company | Statement: [Boston Associates, established, Merrimack Manufacturing Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merrimack Manufacturing Company Context triple: [Boston Associates, established, Merrimack Manufacturing Company]
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A.
Boston Manufacturing Company
The Boston Manufacturing Company was an early 19th-century American textile firm that pioneered the integrated factory system and helped launch the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
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B.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
chosen
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a major 19th- and early 20th-century textile manufacturer that became one of the largest cotton textile plants in the world and a central driver of Manchester, New Hampshire’s industrial growth.
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C.
New England Shipbuilding Corporation
New England Shipbuilding Corporation was a World War II-era American shipyard in South Portland, Maine, known for mass-producing Liberty ships for the U.S. war effort.
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D.
Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works was a prominent 19th-century American manufacturer of steam locomotives that later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
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E.
Massey Manufacturing Company
Massey Manufacturing Company was a prominent 19th-century Canadian agricultural machinery manufacturer that later became part of the firm known as Massey-Harris and eventually Massey Ferguson.
- 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_69c6996180088190832e38e8d83ff54a |
completed | March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c703d9d8fc8190b51faeb081ee425f |
completed | March 27, 2026, 10:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c8d6c06f54819096162e84180918ba |
completed | March 29, 2026, 7:37 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.