Triple

T22504908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ingenico E556363 entity
Predicate acquired P2511 FINISHED
Object Hypercom (parts of business)
Hypercom (parts of business) refers to the payment terminal and transaction processing operations formerly belonging to Hypercom that were acquired and integrated into Ingenico’s electronic payments solutions portfolio.
 E1540636 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: Hypercom (parts of business) | Statement: [Ingenico, acquired, Hypercom (parts of business)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hypercom (parts of business)
Context triple: [Ingenico, acquired, Hypercom (parts of business)]
  • A. Embarq Corporation
    Embarq Corporation was a U.S.-based telecommunications company providing local, long-distance, and data services, later absorbed into CenturyLink’s operations.
  • B. Associated Communications Corporation
    Associated Communications Corporation was a media holding company that owned and operated television broadcasting assets, including the Associated Television network.
  • C. PAETEC Communications
    PAETEC Communications was a U.S.-based telecommunications company that provided voice, data, and Internet services to business customers before being acquired by Windstream Communications.
  • D. Adnet
    Adnet is a small municipality in the Austrian state of Salzburg, known for its marble quarries and scenic Alpine surroundings.
  • E. Opal Telecom
    Opal Telecom was a UK-based telecommunications provider that became part of TalkTalk’s business services operations following its acquisition.
  • 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: Hypercom (parts of business)
Triple: [Ingenico, acquired, Hypercom (parts of business)]
Generated description
Hypercom (parts of business) refers to the payment terminal and transaction processing operations formerly belonging to Hypercom that were acquired and integrated into Ingenico’s electronic payments solutions portfolio.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hypercom (parts of business)
Target entity description: Hypercom (parts of business) refers to the payment terminal and transaction processing operations formerly belonging to Hypercom that were acquired and integrated into Ingenico’s electronic payments solutions portfolio.
  • A. Embarq Corporation
    Embarq Corporation was a U.S.-based telecommunications company providing local, long-distance, and data services, later absorbed into CenturyLink’s operations.
  • B. Associated Communications Corporation
    Associated Communications Corporation was a media holding company that owned and operated television broadcasting assets, including the Associated Television network.
  • C. PAETEC Communications
    PAETEC Communications was a U.S.-based telecommunications company that provided voice, data, and Internet services to business customers before being acquired by Windstream Communications.
  • D. Adnet
    Adnet is a small municipality in the Austrian state of Salzburg, known for its marble quarries and scenic Alpine surroundings.
  • E. Opal Telecom
    Opal Telecom was a UK-based telecommunications provider that became part of TalkTalk’s business services operations following its acquisition.
  • 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_69e11e555edc81909ca803587dafd747 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f15d5ac5808190a66f9111c350f4dc completed April 29, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b17e860888190b5c74df43a9890e9 completed May 18, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b18ad4f608190a6947aeb790d8be7 completed May 18, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b1979fe088190a06edb086d6b2b46 completed May 18, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:50 p.m.