Triple

T1937580
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MCI Inc. E41476 entity
Predicate tickerSymbol P1447 FINISHED
Object WCOM
WCOM was the former stock ticker symbol for MCI Inc., a major U.S. telecommunications company that played a significant role in long-distance and internet services before its collapse in the early 2000s.
 E216129 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: WCOM | Statement: [MCI Inc., tickerSymbol, WCOM]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: WCOM
Context triple: [MCI Inc., tickerSymbol, WCOM]
  • A. WTN
    WTN is the IATA airport code for RAF Waddington, a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England.
  • B. WATH
    WATH is a local radio station serving the Athens, Ohio area with news, talk, and music programming.
  • C. WFM (former)
    WFM (former) was the stock ticker symbol under which Whole Foods Market was publicly traded before its acquisition by Amazon.
  • D. Volacom
    Volacom is a company founded by Tesla co-founder and battery technology pioneer JB Straubel, likely focused on advanced engineering and sustainable technology solutions.
  • E. WCP
    WCP is the abbreviation for the World Climate Programme, an international initiative focused on understanding and addressing global climate variability and change.
  • 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: WCOM
Triple: [MCI Inc., tickerSymbol, WCOM]
Generated description
WCOM was the former stock ticker symbol for MCI Inc., a major U.S. telecommunications company that played a significant role in long-distance and internet services before its collapse in the early 2000s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: WCOM
Target entity description: WCOM was the former stock ticker symbol for MCI Inc., a major U.S. telecommunications company that played a significant role in long-distance and internet services before its collapse in the early 2000s.
  • A. WTN
    WTN is the IATA airport code for RAF Waddington, a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England.
  • B. WATH
    WATH is a local radio station serving the Athens, Ohio area with news, talk, and music programming.
  • C. WFM (former)
    WFM (former) was the stock ticker symbol under which Whole Foods Market was publicly traded before its acquisition by Amazon.
  • D. Volacom
    Volacom is a company founded by Tesla co-founder and battery technology pioneer JB Straubel, likely focused on advanced engineering and sustainable technology solutions.
  • E. WCP
    WCP is the abbreviation for the World Climate Programme, an international initiative focused on understanding and addressing global climate variability and change.
  • 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.