Triple
T21075844
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | ICT |
E519231
|
entity |
| Predicate | formedByMergerOf |
P77
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Tabulating Machine Company |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: British Tabulating Machine Company | Statement: [ICT, formedByMergerOf, British Tabulating Machine Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Tabulating Machine Company Context triple: [ICT, formedByMergerOf, British Tabulating Machine Company]
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A.
Remington Rand
Remington Rand was a major American business machines and early computer manufacturer, best known for producing the UNIVAC, one of the first commercial computers.
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B.
International Computers and Tabulators
chosen
International Computers and Tabulators was a major British computer manufacturer formed in the late 1950s, known for producing early mainframe and business computers before eventually becoming part of ICL.
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C.
Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation
Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation was an early American computer company founded by ENIAC creators J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly that played a pioneering role in the development of commercial electronic computers.
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D.
Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique
Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique was a major French computer company created in the 1960s as part of a national effort to develop an independent computing industry.
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E.
Marconi Computer Systems
Marconi Computer Systems was a British computer manufacturer and IT company that became part of International Computers Limited (ICL) through a merger.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b506e59c8190849b71ed07929215 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e702d690dc8190839968b562e6b8bb |
completed | April 21, 2026, 4:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:48 p.m.