Triple
T15953587
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nextel Communications |
E386876
|
entity |
| Predicate | acquired |
P2511
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pacific Northwest Cellular |
E669327
|
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: Pacific Northwest Cellular | Statement: [Nextel Communications, acquired, Pacific Northwest Cellular]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Northwest Cellular Context triple: [Nextel Communications, acquired, Pacific Northwest Cellular]
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A.
Pacific Northwest Bell
Pacific Northwest Bell was a regional Bell System telephone company that provided telecommunications services in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, primarily Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
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B.
PacTel Cellular
chosen
PacTel Cellular was a regional wireless telephone service provider in the United States that operated as the mobile communications arm of Pacific Telesis before being spun off and eventually absorbed into larger national carriers.
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C.
McCaw Cellular Communications
McCaw Cellular Communications was a pioneering U.S. wireless telecommunications company that played a key role in the early development and expansion of the cellular phone industry before being acquired by AT&T.
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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.
Southern Telecom
Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
- 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_69d86da882448190a82ea962fe343b79 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e156f810148190ab4989a0e4a5f8c0 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 9:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ffbe7ab070819090232efdeecdd5fb |
completed | May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.