Triple

T11245176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Union Spectrum E266183 entity
Predicate sponsoredBy P67 FINISHED
Object First Union Corporation
First Union Corporation was a major American bank holding company that grew rapidly through mergers and acquisitions before ultimately becoming part of Wachovia and then Wells Fargo.
E913600 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: First Union Corporation | Statement: [First Union Spectrum, sponsoredBy, First Union Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Union Corporation
Context triple: [First Union Spectrum, sponsoredBy, First Union Corporation]
  • A. Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
    Commonwealth & Southern Corporation was a major American electric utility holding company in the early 20th century, known for its extensive regional power operations and for employing future presidential candidate Wendell Willkie as its president.
  • B. Bank One Corporation
    Bank One Corporation was a major U.S. bank holding company that became one of the nation’s largest banks before its 2004 acquisition by JPMorgan Chase.
  • C. Gulf+Western
    Gulf+Western was a large American conglomerate best known for owning Paramount Pictures and diversifying across entertainment, publishing, and manufacturing in the mid-20th century.
  • D. First Allied Corporation
    First Allied Corporation is a private holding company and investment firm associated with the Glazer family, known for its interests in real estate and various business ventures.
  • E. First Security Corporation
    First Security Corporation was a prominent regional banking and financial services holding company based in Utah, known for its extensive operations in the Intermountain West before being acquired by Wells Fargo.
  • 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: First Union Corporation
Triple: [First Union Spectrum, sponsoredBy, First Union Corporation]
Generated description
First Union Corporation was a major American bank holding company that grew rapidly through mergers and acquisitions before ultimately becoming part of Wachovia and then Wells Fargo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Union Corporation
Target entity description: First Union Corporation was a major American bank holding company that grew rapidly through mergers and acquisitions before ultimately becoming part of Wachovia and then Wells Fargo.
  • A. Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
    Commonwealth & Southern Corporation was a major American electric utility holding company in the early 20th century, known for its extensive regional power operations and for employing future presidential candidate Wendell Willkie as its president.
  • B. Bank One Corporation
    Bank One Corporation was a major U.S. bank holding company that became one of the nation’s largest banks before its 2004 acquisition by JPMorgan Chase.
  • C. Gulf+Western
    Gulf+Western was a large American conglomerate best known for owning Paramount Pictures and diversifying across entertainment, publishing, and manufacturing in the mid-20th century.
  • D. First Allied Corporation
    First Allied Corporation is a private holding company and investment firm associated with the Glazer family, known for its interests in real estate and various business ventures.
  • E. First Security Corporation
    First Security Corporation was a prominent regional banking and financial services holding company based in Utah, known for its extensive operations in the Intermountain West before being acquired by Wells Fargo.
  • 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e91c045c81908a9024a8aee32f4d completed April 9, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4ad8c3bec8190987451ab73e79011 completed April 19, 2026, 10:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4b12eee348190bee6c84587e4955d completed April 19, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4be2bb8c88190a21773b0c43b6b99 completed April 19, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.