Triple

T1649790
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas J. Watson E35664 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company E5663 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: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company | Statement: [Thomas J. Watson, employer, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
Context triple: [Thomas J. Watson, employer, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company]
  • A. Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company chosen
    Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was the early 20th-century American business machines firm that later evolved into IBM, a global leader in computing technology.
  • B. Columbia Phonograph Company
    Columbia Phonograph Company was an early American record label and phonograph company that became one of the pioneering firms in the recorded music industry.
  • C. Columbia Graphophone Company
    Columbia Graphophone Company was an early 20th-century British record label and gramophone manufacturer that played a key role in the development of the modern recording industry.
  • D. Edison Phonograph Company
    The Edison Phonograph Company was an early American firm founded by Thomas Edison to produce and market his pioneering phonograph sound-recording and playback devices.
  • E. Reading Company
    Reading Company was a major American railroad and coal company based in Pennsylvania, best known for operating the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and influencing regional transportation and industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 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_69a8860568888190a32cd9f70acbba42 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a66b58c819082d38ef1c805cf44 completed March 5, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad60a73a288190a659e2a1f09ba524 completed March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.