Triple

T8396548
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. E198066 entity
Predicate foundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object Harriman Brothers & Co.
Harriman Brothers & Co. was an early American banking and investment firm that later became part of the prominent financial institution Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
 E730505 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: Harriman Brothers & Co. | Statement: [Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., foundedAs, Harriman Brothers & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harriman Brothers & Co.
Context triple: [Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., foundedAs, Harriman Brothers & Co.]
  • A. Henry S. King & Co.
    Henry S. King & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British banking and publishing firm known for its operations in London and colonial India.
  • B. Rinehart & Company
    Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
  • C. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William A. Read & Co.
    William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
  • E. Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company
    Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company was a historic department store that eventually evolved into the modern upscale retailer now known as Von Maur.
  • 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: Harriman Brothers & Co.
Triple: [Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., foundedAs, Harriman Brothers & Co.]
Generated description
Harriman Brothers & Co. was an early American banking and investment firm that later became part of the prominent financial institution Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Harriman Brothers & Co.
Target entity description: Harriman Brothers & Co. was an early American banking and investment firm that later became part of the prominent financial institution Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
  • A. Henry S. King & Co.
    Henry S. King & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British banking and publishing firm known for its operations in London and colonial India.
  • B. Rinehart & Company
    Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
  • C. Gage Brothers & Company
    Gage Brothers & Company was a prominent Chicago-based millinery firm known for its fashionable hats and accessories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William A. Read & Co.
    William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
  • E. Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company
    Petersen & Sons Dry Goods Company was a historic department store that eventually evolved into the modern upscale retailer now known as Von Maur.
  • 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_69ca82f816bc8190ab321c07d72208c1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb818893348190a6ea2ff6a2e3e491 completed March 31, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde867d21c8190b066a6c88273ec5a completed April 2, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdebfd60188190a1681344e2bf1e9e completed April 2, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cded2fa42c8190bfbfc79caf38bf8e completed April 2, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:04 p.m.