Triple

T17507112
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Downtown Waterbury Historic District E426347 entity
Predicate contains P35 FINISHED
Object Howland-Hughes Company building
The Howland-Hughes Company building is a historic former department store structure in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, noted for its early 20th-century commercial architecture and role in the city’s retail history.
E1272665 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: Howland-Hughes Company building | Statement: [Downtown Waterbury Historic District, contains, Howland-Hughes Company building]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howland-Hughes Company building
Context triple: [Downtown Waterbury Historic District, contains, Howland-Hughes Company building]
  • A. Buckwalter Building
    The Buckwalter Building is a historic commercial structure located in downtown West Chester, Pennsylvania, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
  • B. Walker Building
    Walker Building is a key academic and administrative facility of Emerson College in Boston, housing classrooms, offices, and media-related spaces for students and faculty.
  • C. Weiler Building
    The Weiler Building is a historic neoclassical structure in Athens that now houses part of the Acropolis Museum’s facilities in the Makrygianni district.
  • D. Howard Building
    Howard Building is an academic facility on Sheffield Hallam University’s city campus, housing teaching spaces and university departments.
  • E. Warren Building
    Warren Building is an academic facility that houses part of the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.
  • 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: Howland-Hughes Company building
Triple: [Downtown Waterbury Historic District, contains, Howland-Hughes Company building]
Generated description
The Howland-Hughes Company building is a historic former department store structure in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, noted for its early 20th-century commercial architecture and role in the city’s retail history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howland-Hughes Company building
Target entity description: The Howland-Hughes Company building is a historic former department store structure in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, noted for its early 20th-century commercial architecture and role in the city’s retail history.
  • A. Buckwalter Building
    The Buckwalter Building is a historic commercial structure located in downtown West Chester, Pennsylvania, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
  • B. Walker Building
    Walker Building is a key academic and administrative facility of Emerson College in Boston, housing classrooms, offices, and media-related spaces for students and faculty.
  • C. Weiler Building
    The Weiler Building is a historic neoclassical structure in Athens that now houses part of the Acropolis Museum’s facilities in the Makrygianni district.
  • D. Howard Building
    Howard Building is an academic facility on Sheffield Hallam University’s city campus, housing teaching spaces and university departments.
  • E. Warren Building
    Warren Building is an academic facility that houses part of the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.
  • 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_69d889dd9164819087b1dc3c9240c870 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e45258b73c81909db581d4f1d27921 completed April 19, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01c20cbf8081909227938b324e45fe completed May 11, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01c388d87c8190ad015b2b63bef528 completed May 11, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01c431b4608190b5636a232ff46733 completed May 11, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:48 a.m.