Triple

T11213964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter S. Gifford E265382 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object American Telephone and Telegraph Company E14707 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: American Telephone and Telegraph Company | Statement: [Walter S. Gifford, employer, American Telephone and Telegraph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Context triple: [Walter S. Gifford, employer, American Telephone and Telegraph Company]
  • A. American Telephone and Telegraph Company chosen
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • B. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
    Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a major regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across much of the southeastern United States before the breakup of AT&T.
  • C. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • D. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • E. Bell Operating Companies
    The Bell Operating Companies are the regional telephone service providers that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System and historically handled local telephone operations across different parts of the United States.
  • 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_69d6aac59460819089b9848b27f57848 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8d7f47c8190b78c640ff1a01943 completed April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e497569efc8190b8e9cb6b1db3f94d completed April 19, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.