Cincinnati Bell
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Cincinnati Bell is a regional telecommunications company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, providing phone, internet, and related services to residential and business customers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cincinnati Bell canonical | 1 |
| Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company LLC | 1 |
| Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4930455 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cincinnati Bell Context triple: [Michael Capellas, boardMemberOf, Cincinnati Bell]
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A.
Ameritech
Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
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B.
SBC Communications
SBC Communications was a major U.S. telecommunications company that grew through acquisitions and later rebranded as AT&T Inc.
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C.
BellSouth
BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
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D.
Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
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E.
Qwest Communications International
Qwest Communications International was a major U.S.-based telecommunications company that provided local, long-distance, and broadband services before being absorbed into what is now Lumen Technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cincinnati Bell Target entity description: Cincinnati Bell is a regional telecommunications company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, providing phone, internet, and related services to residential and business customers.
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A.
Ameritech
Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
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B.
SBC Communications
SBC Communications was a major U.S. telecommunications company that grew through acquisitions and later rebranded as AT&T Inc.
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C.
BellSouth
BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
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D.
Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
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E.
Qwest Communications International
Qwest Communications International was a major U.S.-based telecommunications company that provided local, long-distance, and broadband services before being absorbed into what is now Lumen Technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
telecommunications company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
ⓘ
linked to:
Macquarie infrastructure funds platform
|
| brand |
CBTS
ⓘ
Fioptics ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerName |
Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati Bell
|
| foundedBy |
Charles Kilgour
ⓘ
Eugene Zimmerman ⓘ |
| hasCallSignOrigin | Bell System ⓘ |
| hasNetworkType |
copper-based network
ⓘ
fiber-to-the-premises network ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor | City and Suburban Telegraph Association ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
CBTS Technology Solutions LLC
ⓘ
Cincinnati Bell Extended Territories LLC ⓘ Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company LLC ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati Bell
OnX Enterprise Solutions ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.cincinnatibell.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Cincinnati, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
|
| historicalAffiliation | Bell System ⓘ |
| industry |
cable television
ⓘ
information technology services ⓘ internet service provider ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| offersTo |
business customers
ⓘ
residential customers ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
ⓘ
linked to:
Macquarie infrastructure funds platform
|
| productOrService |
IT consulting services
ⓘ
broadband internet ⓘ business data services ⓘ business voice services ⓘ cloud services ⓘ data center services ⓘ fiber-optic internet ⓘ landline telephone service ⓘ managed services ⓘ television service ⓘ wireless telephone service ⓘ |
| regionServed | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Greater Cincinnati
ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati metropolitan area
Indiana ⓘ Kentucky ⓘ Ohio ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | CBB ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cincinnati Bell Description of subject: Cincinnati Bell is a regional telecommunications company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, providing phone, internet, and related services to residential and business customers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cincinnati Bell
linked to: Cincinnati Bell