Triple
T9800562
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Discover Financial Services |
E237825
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Dean Witter Discover |
E237824
|
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: Dean Witter Discover | Statement: [Discover Financial Services, predecessor, Dean Witter Discover]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dean Witter Discover Context triple: [Discover Financial Services, predecessor, Dean Witter Discover]
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A.
Dean Witter Financial Services Group
chosen
Dean Witter Financial Services Group was a major American financial services and brokerage firm that became best known as the predecessor to Discover Financial Services and later part of Morgan Stanley.
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B.
PaineWebber
PaineWebber was a major American brokerage and investment banking firm that became one of Wall Street’s prominent financial services companies before its eventual acquisition by UBS.
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C.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
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D.
Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments is a major American multinational financial services corporation best known for its mutual funds, brokerage services, and retirement investment products.
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E.
Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
- 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_69ca84dd4608819097ff4ed00feca280 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cda62a11a88190880e0cce24923b14 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 11:11 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1cc53c3dc819084a4d8b72164a172 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 2:43 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:29 p.m.