Triple
T2340329
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bell Telephone Company |
E45010
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Sanders |
E154153
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Thomas Sanders | Statement: [Bell Telephone Company, foundedBy, Thomas Sanders]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Sanders Context triple: [Bell Telephone Company, foundedBy, Thomas Sanders]
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A.
Thomas Sanders
chosen
Thomas Sanders was an American businessman and early telecommunications pioneer who co-founded the company that became AT&T.
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B.
Tim Sanders
Tim Sanders is a New Zealand film producer best known for his work on Peter Jackson’s acclaimed The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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C.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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D.
Richard Madsen
Richard Madsen is an American sociologist and scholar of Chinese society and culture, known for his influential work on religion, morality, and modernity, often in collaboration with Robert N. Bellah.
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E.
Matthew Sands
Matthew Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as one of the co-authors of the influential textbook series "The Feynman Lectures on Physics."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88917935081909b755dbf38e81024 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc6aa47948190ab6ce6a40863e95c |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:33 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae961fd8748190a82ca4c4b840d9f6 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.