Triple

T9666684
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kidder, Peabody & Co. E233722 entity
Predicate acquiredBy P347 FINISHED
Object PaineWebber
PaineWebber was a major American brokerage and investment banking firm that became one of Wall Street’s prominent financial services companies before its eventual acquisition by UBS.
E816086 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: PaineWebber | Statement: [Kidder, Peabody & Co., acquiredBy, PaineWebber]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PaineWebber
Context triple: [Kidder, Peabody & Co., acquiredBy, PaineWebber]
  • A. Shearson Loeb Rhoades
    Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
  • B. Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
  • C. Dean Witter Financial Services Group
    Dean Witter Financial Services Group was a major American financial services and brokerage firm that became best known as the predecessor to Discover Financial Services and later part of Morgan Stanley.
  • D. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • E. Cantor Fitzgerald
    Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • 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: PaineWebber
Triple: [Kidder, Peabody & Co., acquiredBy, PaineWebber]
Generated description
PaineWebber was a major American brokerage and investment banking firm that became one of Wall Street’s prominent financial services companies before its eventual acquisition by UBS.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PaineWebber
Target entity description: PaineWebber was a major American brokerage and investment banking firm that became one of Wall Street’s prominent financial services companies before its eventual acquisition by UBS.
  • A. Shearson Loeb Rhoades
    Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.
  • B. Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch is a major American wealth management and investment banking firm known for its brokerage services and role in global financial markets.
  • C. Dean Witter Financial Services Group
    Dean Witter Financial Services Group was a major American financial services and brokerage firm that became best known as the predecessor to Discover Financial Services and later part of Morgan Stanley.
  • D. Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers was a prominent Wall Street investment bank known for its influential role in the bond market and its aggressive trading culture in the late 20th century.
  • E. Cantor Fitzgerald
    Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • 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_69ca848d3b6c8190ae98ea554dea58df completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c3a63948190be3f48f87bdbccf1 completed April 1, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f70597c81909d461b3d935b02a5 completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1a022efd48190b0206bbdf3d93b9e completed April 4, 2026, 11:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1a09ae5b48190b4d0b01cd20ba140 completed April 4, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:15 p.m.