Triple
T100428
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bell Telephone Laboratories |
E2027
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Western Electric Company |
E11865
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Western Electric Company | Statement: [Bell Telephone Laboratories, foundedBy, Western Electric Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Electric Company Context triple: [Bell Telephone Laboratories, foundedBy, Western Electric Company]
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A.
Western Electric
chosen
Western Electric was a major American electrical engineering and manufacturing company best known as the manufacturing arm of AT&T and a pioneer in telecommunications and sound technology.
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B.
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
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C.
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Bell Telephone Laboratories was a pioneering American research and development organization renowned for groundbreaking innovations in telecommunications and electronics, including the invention of the transistor.
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D.
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Corporation of America was a major American electronics and communications conglomerate best known for pioneering radio and television technology and broadcasting throughout the 20th century.
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E.
Edison General Electric Company
Edison General Electric Company was an early American industrial and electrical manufacturing firm created by inventor Thomas Edison that became a key predecessor to today’s General Electric.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a24d4862f881908cc8b89d3a78031d |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a24ff1a8cc8190843d4c6807cebd09 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:16 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a29e45d6488190bc982137255c79f9 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 7:50 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.