Triple

T10264868
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black Magic E240686 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object Bobbs-Merrill
Bobbs-Merrill was an American publishing company known for producing a wide range of literary works, including fiction, educational texts, and reference books in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
E851797 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: Bobbs-Merrill | Statement: [Black Magic, publisher, Bobbs-Merrill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bobbs-Merrill
Context triple: [Black Magic, publisher, Bobbs-Merrill]
  • A. Wheeler-Rayburn Act
    The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
  • B. Wheeler–Howard Act
    The Wheeler–Howard Act, formally known as the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, is a U.S. federal law that ended the allotment of tribal lands and aimed to restore tribal self-government and communal landholding for Native American tribes.
  • C. Vinson-Trammell Act
    The Vinson-Trammell Act was a 1934 U.S. law that authorized a major expansion and modernization of the Navy’s fleet within treaty limits, laying groundwork for American naval strength before World War II.
  • D. Dingley Act
    The Dingley Act was an 1897 U.S. tariff law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, succeeding and strengthening the earlier McKinley Tariff.
  • E. Hepburn Act
    The Hepburn Act was a 1906 U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission’s power to regulate railroad rates and practices as part of Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Era reforms.
  • 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: Bobbs-Merrill
Triple: [Black Magic, publisher, Bobbs-Merrill]
Generated description
Bobbs-Merrill was an American publishing company known for producing a wide range of literary works, including fiction, educational texts, and reference books in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bobbs-Merrill
Target entity description: Bobbs-Merrill was an American publishing company known for producing a wide range of literary works, including fiction, educational texts, and reference books in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • A. Wheeler-Rayburn Act
    The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
  • B. Wheeler–Howard Act
    The Wheeler–Howard Act, formally known as the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, is a U.S. federal law that ended the allotment of tribal lands and aimed to restore tribal self-government and communal landholding for Native American tribes.
  • C. Vinson-Trammell Act
    The Vinson-Trammell Act was a 1934 U.S. law that authorized a major expansion and modernization of the Navy’s fleet within treaty limits, laying groundwork for American naval strength before World War II.
  • D. Dingley Act
    The Dingley Act was an 1897 U.S. tariff law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, succeeding and strengthening the earlier McKinley Tariff.
  • E. Hepburn Act
    The Hepburn Act was a 1906 U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission’s power to regulate railroad rates and practices as part of Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Era reforms.
  • 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_69d381a94c1881908fc38fc263d9b9c2 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d25f17ec8190ac57836d36cb39db completed April 7, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f7ff3f808190b4a8a021f44e2176 completed April 9, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fcabb5a08190a26c068163f48878 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fd7212b88190b410b8e1cc6f56fd completed April 9, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:33 a.m.