Triple

T1937515
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject GTE E41475 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Sylvania Electric Products
Sylvania Electric Products was a major American manufacturer of radio and television tubes, consumer electronics, and lighting products that became part of GTE through acquisition.
E216121 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: Sylvania Electric Products | Statement: [GTE, predecessor, Sylvania Electric Products]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvania Electric Products
Context triple: [GTE, predecessor, Sylvania Electric Products]
  • A. Edison Manufacturing Company
    Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
  • B. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
  • C. Westinghouse Licensing Corporation
    Westinghouse Licensing Corporation is the company that manages and licenses the Westinghouse brand and related intellectual property across various products and services.
  • D. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
    Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was a company founded by inventor Thomas Edison that produced a range of early sound recording and playback devices and other electrical innovations.
  • E. Philco
    Philco was a pioneering American electronics manufacturer best known for its radios, televisions, and early computer and semiconductor technologies.
  • 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: Sylvania Electric Products
Triple: [GTE, predecessor, Sylvania Electric Products]
Generated description
Sylvania Electric Products was a major American manufacturer of radio and television tubes, consumer electronics, and lighting products that became part of GTE through acquisition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvania Electric Products
Target entity description: Sylvania Electric Products was a major American manufacturer of radio and television tubes, consumer electronics, and lighting products that became part of GTE through acquisition.
  • A. Edison Manufacturing Company
    Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
  • B. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
  • C. Westinghouse Licensing Corporation
    Westinghouse Licensing Corporation is the company that manages and licenses the Westinghouse brand and related intellectual property across various products and services.
  • D. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
    Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was a company founded by inventor Thomas Edison that produced a range of early sound recording and playback devices and other electrical innovations.
  • E. Philco
    Philco was a pioneering American electronics manufacturer best known for its radios, televisions, and early computer and semiconductor technologies.
  • 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_69a88649b24c819080047f26b6db2ded completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2c752fc81909baf38ff1cdeb18c completed March 7, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3f6285c8190925af156f49cf9a2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf4aea46481908b5da7c4251dd867 completed March 8, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf52b63c481908fcb9db4c40875b4 completed March 8, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.