Triple

T931433
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dillon, Read & Co. E20100 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object 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.
E109636 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 A. Read & Co. | Statement: [Dillon, Read & Co., predecessor, William A. Read & Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Read & Co.
Context triple: [Dillon, Read & Co., predecessor, William A. Read & Co.]
  • A. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • B. Charles L. Webster and Company
    Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
  • C. Phillips, Sampson and Company
    Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
  • D. James R. Osgood & Co.
    James R. Osgood & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors such as Mark Twain.
  • E. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • 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 A. Read & Co.
Triple: [Dillon, Read & Co., predecessor, William A. Read & Co.]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Read & Co.
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • B. Charles L. Webster and Company
    Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
  • C. Phillips, Sampson and Company
    Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
  • D. James R. Osgood & Co.
    James R. Osgood & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors such as Mark Twain.
  • E. Carol & Company
    Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
  • 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_69a493af3dc48190adb7263e6e445ea1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b34b302c81908fa32cb18f551493 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee1108188190a26c73864c697061 completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7f1a1214481909538745d5713e402 completed March 4, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7f2303534819094ae764b20d223ee completed March 4, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.