Triple

T23163996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boscov's E578664 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Solomon Boscov
Solomon Boscov was a Russian immigrant and entrepreneur who established Boscov's as a family-owned department store chain in the United States.
 E1572800 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: Solomon Boscov | Statement: [Boscov's, founder, Solomon Boscov]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Solomon Boscov
Context triple: [Boscov's, founder, Solomon Boscov]
  • A. Aby Rosen
    Aby Rosen is a prominent New York real estate developer and art collector known for owning and redeveloping high-profile properties and integrating contemporary art into his projects.
  • B. Joseph B. Bloomingdale
    Joseph B. Bloomingdale was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Bloomingdale's department store.
  • C. Herman Bergdorf
    Herman Bergdorf was a German-born American tailor and businessman best known as the co-founder of the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
  • D. Sidney Taylor
    Sidney Taylor is a banking executive who served in a supervisory leadership role at Meritor Savings Bank, FSB.
  • E. Robert S. Taubman
    Robert S. Taubman is an American real estate executive best known for leading the Taubman Company, a major developer and operator of shopping malls.
  • 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: Solomon Boscov
Triple: [Boscov's, founder, Solomon Boscov]
Generated description
Solomon Boscov was a Russian immigrant and entrepreneur who established Boscov's as a family-owned department store chain in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Solomon Boscov
Target entity description: Solomon Boscov was a Russian immigrant and entrepreneur who established Boscov's as a family-owned department store chain in the United States.
  • A. Aby Rosen
    Aby Rosen is a prominent New York real estate developer and art collector known for owning and redeveloping high-profile properties and integrating contemporary art into his projects.
  • B. Joseph B. Bloomingdale
    Joseph B. Bloomingdale was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Bloomingdale's department store.
  • C. Herman Bergdorf
    Herman Bergdorf was a German-born American tailor and businessman best known as the co-founder of the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
  • D. Sidney Taylor
    Sidney Taylor is a banking executive who served in a supervisory leadership role at Meritor Savings Bank, FSB.
  • E. Robert S. Taubman
    Robert S. Taubman is an American real estate executive best known for leading the Taubman Company, a major developer and operator of shopping malls.
  • 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_69e245fc75348190a0288401044c8af8 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18f2b0414819081f9c2d6b8c88421 completed April 29, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c30a4760881908b4e306b896df80e completed May 19, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c32ab76988190917b76806a6c2c80 completed May 19, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c3335e83c8190a9bee47e86215c05 completed May 19, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:02 p.m.