Triple

T17079756
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jeptha H. Wade E414438 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Western Union Telegraph Company E42198 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 Union Telegraph Company | Statement: [Jeptha H. Wade, associatedWith, Western Union Telegraph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Western Union Telegraph Company
Context triple: [Jeptha H. Wade, associatedWith, Western Union Telegraph Company]
  • A. Western Union chosen
    Western Union is a major American financial services and communications company best known for its historic telegraph network and global money transfer services.
  • B. Atlantic Telegraph Company
    The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a 19th-century enterprise that built and operated the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, revolutionizing long-distance communication between Europe and North America.
  • C. Pacific Telegraph Company
    The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
  • D. American Messenger Company
    American Messenger Company was the early 20th-century Seattle-based delivery firm that evolved into the global logistics giant United Parcel Service (UPS).
  • E. Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil
    Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil was a historic French electronics and telecommunications company that became a key predecessor to the modern Thales Group.
  • 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_69d886cef44c8190ba56c44b4e863e64 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3dbe24a6481908b4596c95220df4a completed April 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a014140722481909f976e32597a873d completed May 11, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.