Triple
T21719478
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John William Mackay |
E536115
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Commercial Cable Company |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Commercial Cable Company | Statement: [John William Mackay, founded, Commercial Cable Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commercial Cable Company Context triple: [John William Mackay, founded, Commercial Cable Company]
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A.
American Cable Systems
American Cable Systems was the original cable television company that later evolved into Comcast Corporation, one of the largest media and telecommunications conglomerates in the United States.
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B.
Tele-Communications Inc. cable systems
Tele-Communications Inc. cable systems were the extensive cable television and broadband assets of Tele-Communications Inc., a major U.S. cable operator whose infrastructure later became a core part of AT&T Broadband.
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C.
Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable is a major Canadian cable television and telecommunications provider offering TV, internet, and phone services, primarily in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland.
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D.
International CableTel Inc.
International CableTel Inc. was a telecommunications company that became the foundation for what later evolved into NTL Incorporated, a major UK cable and broadband provider.
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E.
United Telecommunications
United Telecommunications was a major American telecommunications company that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what became Sprint Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commercial Cable Company Target entity description: Commercial Cable Company was a major late-19th-century transatlantic telegraph firm that broke the existing cable monopoly by providing competitive telegraph services between North America and Europe.
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A.
American Cable Systems
American Cable Systems was the original cable television company that later evolved into Comcast Corporation, one of the largest media and telecommunications conglomerates in the United States.
-
B.
Tele-Communications Inc. cable systems
Tele-Communications Inc. cable systems were the extensive cable television and broadband assets of Tele-Communications Inc., a major U.S. cable operator whose infrastructure later became a core part of AT&T Broadband.
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C.
Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable is a major Canadian cable television and telecommunications provider offering TV, internet, and phone services, primarily in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland.
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D.
International CableTel Inc.
International CableTel Inc. was a telecommunications company that became the foundation for what later evolved into NTL Incorporated, a major UK cable and broadband provider.
-
E.
United Telecommunications
United Telecommunications was a major American telecommunications company that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what became Sprint Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69e0c46c6dd88190a595375fa6ebd701 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69efd96de818819084c268d4775a8e3a |
completed | April 27, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:47 p.m.