Triple
T9359719
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | "The Custom-House" introduction to "The Scarlet Letter" |
E225246
|
entity |
| Predicate | originalPublisher |
P1760
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ticknor, Reed and Fields |
E68902
|
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: Ticknor, Reed and Fields | Statement: ["The Custom-House" introduction to "The Scarlet Letter", originalPublisher, Ticknor, Reed and Fields]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ticknor, Reed and Fields Context triple: ["The Custom-House" introduction to "The Scarlet Letter", originalPublisher, Ticknor, Reed and Fields]
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A.
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
chosen
Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Thayer & Eldridge
Thayer & Eldridge was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant antislavery and reform literature, including Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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C.
Ticknor and Fields
Ticknor and Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house based in Boston, known for issuing works by leading New England authors and shaping the era’s literary culture.
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D.
Seabury & Johnson
Seabury & Johnson was a 19th-century American medical products company that became an early predecessor to Johnson & Johnson.
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E.
Fowler & Wells
Fowler & Wells was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for promoting phrenology and reform literature, including influential works on social and women's rights.
- 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_69ca842bdd648190904131d58620d448 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd4ff2ca9081908ccc88651640ed84 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 5:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d100d000a081909964736e8a7418ba |
completed | April 4, 2026, 12:15 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:42 p.m.