Triple

T21686536
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Absentee E535242 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object J. Johnson and Co.
J. Johnson and Co. was a London-based publishing house active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for issuing works of literature, philosophy, and political thought.
E1496842 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: J. Johnson and Co. | Statement: [The Absentee, publisher, J. Johnson and Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Johnson and Co.
Context triple: [The Absentee, publisher, J. Johnson and Co.]
  • A. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • B. Jackson and Sharp Company
    Jackson and Sharp Company was a historic American manufacturer of railroad cars and related equipment that later became part of American Car and Foundry through merger.
  • C. Gimson and Company
    Gimson and Company was a prominent 19th-century British engineering firm known for manufacturing steam engines and industrial machinery.
  • D. The Elder & Johnston Company
    The Elder & Johnston Company was a historic Dayton, Ohio–based department store firm that evolved into the regional retail chain later known as Elder-Beerman.
  • E. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • 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: J. Johnson and Co.
Triple: [The Absentee, publisher, J. Johnson and Co.]
Generated description
J. Johnson and Co. was a London-based publishing house active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for issuing works of literature, philosophy, and political thought.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Johnson and Co.
Target entity description: J. Johnson and Co. was a London-based publishing house active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for issuing works of literature, philosophy, and political thought.
  • A. John P. Jewett & Company
    John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  • B. Jackson and Sharp Company
    Jackson and Sharp Company was a historic American manufacturer of railroad cars and related equipment that later became part of American Car and Foundry through merger.
  • C. Gimson and Company
    Gimson and Company was a prominent 19th-century British engineering firm known for manufacturing steam engines and industrial machinery.
  • D. The Elder & Johnston Company
    The Elder & Johnston Company was a historic Dayton, Ohio–based department store firm that evolved into the regional retail chain later known as Elder-Beerman.
  • E. J.W. Foster and Sons
    J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
  • 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_69e0c469b6ec8190aee4cadd1527db91 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef96cb69f081908ed0c7ebea429898 completed April 27, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a1e20fc348190899995c0988d9cc5 completed May 17, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a1ef23b6c8190a0194719c34bb971 completed May 17, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a1fc13900819098ee66684dfdff95 completed May 17, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:44 p.m.