Triple

T21465199
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Spring Merriam E529576 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object G. & C. Merriam Company
G. & C. Merriam Company was a prominent American publishing firm best known as the original publisher of Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
 E1486527 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: G. & C. Merriam Company | Statement: [George Spring Merriam, employer, G. & C. Merriam Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: G. & C. Merriam Company
Context triple: [George Spring Merriam, employer, G. & C. Merriam Company]
  • A. Charles H. Kerr & Company
    Charles H. Kerr & Company is a historic American radical publishing house best known for its socialist, labor, and anarchist literature.
  • B. D. C. Heath & Co.
    D. C. Heath & Co. was an American educational publishing company known for producing influential textbooks and academic works in fields such as philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences.
  • C. Houghton Mifflin
    Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
  • D. Riverside Press
    Riverside Press was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American printing and publishing house based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality book production.
  • E. Westview Press
    Westview Press is an academic publishing imprint known for producing scholarly and educational books, particularly in the social sciences and humanities.
  • 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: G. & C. Merriam Company
Triple: [George Spring Merriam, employer, G. & C. Merriam Company]
Generated description
G. & C. Merriam Company was a prominent American publishing firm best known as the original publisher of Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: G. & C. Merriam Company
Target entity description: G. & C. Merriam Company was a prominent American publishing firm best known as the original publisher of Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
  • A. Charles H. Kerr & Company
    Charles H. Kerr & Company is a historic American radical publishing house best known for its socialist, labor, and anarchist literature.
  • B. D. C. Heath & Co.
    D. C. Heath & Co. was an American educational publishing company known for producing influential textbooks and academic works in fields such as philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences.
  • C. Houghton Mifflin
    Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
  • D. Riverside Press
    Riverside Press was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American printing and publishing house based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality book production.
  • E. Westview Press
    Westview Press is an academic publishing imprint known for producing scholarly and educational books, particularly in the social sciences and humanities.
  • 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_69e0c458133481908ae8b41a12c4edec completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e9e9f1b3cc819092c200f09c6f461e completed April 23, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09cff295b88190bb73ee4f9e10be96 completed May 17, 2026, 2:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09d12a7e48819096d0bfe0c6f70e51 completed May 17, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09d20ea5a8819097f8056451a2f3ac completed May 17, 2026, 2:34 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:09 p.m.