Triple

T837298
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject An Autobiography E18096 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object William Blackwood and Sons
William Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for producing influential literary and scholarly works.
E98699 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: William Blackwood and Sons | Statement: [An Autobiography, publisher, William Blackwood and Sons]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Blackwood and Sons
Context triple: [An Autobiography, publisher, William Blackwood and Sons]
  • A. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • B. William Collins, Sons
    William Collins, Sons was a prominent Scottish publishing company known for its books, educational materials, and later integration into HarperCollins.
  • C. J. Hinks & Son
    J. Hinks & Son was a British shipbuilding firm known for constructing the 20th-century replica of the historic Mayflower, the Mayflower II.
  • D. Henry Willis & Co.
    Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
  • E. Smith, Elder & Co.
    Smith, Elder & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major literary works and reference titles, including the Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 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: William Blackwood and Sons
Triple: [An Autobiography, publisher, William Blackwood and Sons]
Generated description
William Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for producing influential literary and scholarly works.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Blackwood and Sons
Target entity description: William Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for producing influential literary and scholarly works.
  • A. John Graham & Company
    John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
  • B. William Collins, Sons
    William Collins, Sons was a prominent Scottish publishing company known for its books, educational materials, and later integration into HarperCollins.
  • C. J. Hinks & Son
    J. Hinks & Son was a British shipbuilding firm known for constructing the 20th-century replica of the historic Mayflower, the Mayflower II.
  • D. Henry Willis & Co.
    Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
  • E. Smith, Elder & Co.
    Smith, Elder & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major literary works and reference titles, including the Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 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_69a49389f44881909a608fb27d89f247 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4abcf69888190b342363978273ae2 completed March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d9cddb48190b0d297c2cc9f3b3c completed March 3, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78e21f4ec81909bd9904554eb3f3f completed March 4, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78ea8b5e481908aac07fe90017986 completed March 4, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.