Triple

T8603995
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John A. Paulson E203751 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Paulson & Co.
Paulson & Co. is a New York-based hedge fund firm best known for its highly profitable bets against the U.S. subprime mortgage market during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
 E744925 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: Paulson & Co. | Statement: [John A. Paulson, founded, Paulson & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paulson & Co.
Context triple: [John A. Paulson, founded, Paulson & Co.]
  • A. Drexel Burnham Lambert
    Drexel Burnham Lambert was a prominent Wall Street investment bank best known for its role in the 1980s junk bond market and its subsequent high-profile collapse.
  • B. Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities, and asset management firm headquartered in New York City.
  • C. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • D. Cantor Fitzgerald
    Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • E. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • 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: Paulson & Co.
Triple: [John A. Paulson, founded, Paulson & Co.]
Generated description
Paulson & Co. is a New York-based hedge fund firm best known for its highly profitable bets against the U.S. subprime mortgage market during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paulson & Co.
Target entity description: Paulson & Co. is a New York-based hedge fund firm best known for its highly profitable bets against the U.S. subprime mortgage market during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
  • A. Drexel Burnham Lambert
    Drexel Burnham Lambert was a prominent Wall Street investment bank best known for its role in the 1980s junk bond market and its subsequent high-profile collapse.
  • B. Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities, and asset management firm headquartered in New York City.
  • C. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
    Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
  • D. Cantor Fitzgerald
    Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • E. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • 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_69ca832b56948190ba751cec255308f1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc46dd8ff8819081ef269192047488 completed March 31, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cea8f8dfa4819080c8ed475a84be41 completed April 2, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cea9d0dad0819095134f6f8cafb4c0 completed April 2, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ceaa7025388190a3f17aca46d4858e completed April 2, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:24 p.m.