Triple

T2340343
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bell Telephone Company E45010 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object American Bell Telephone Company
American Bell Telephone Company was a major early U.S. telecommunications firm that consolidated and expanded Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone business into a nationwide system.
E45010 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: American Bell Telephone Company | Statement: [Bell Telephone Company, successor, American Bell Telephone Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Bell Telephone Company
Context triple: [Bell Telephone Company, successor, American Bell Telephone Company]
  • A. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • B. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • C. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • D. Bell Operating Companies
    The Bell Operating Companies are the regional telephone service providers that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System and historically handled local telephone operations across different parts of the United States.
  • E. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • 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: American Bell Telephone Company
Triple: [Bell Telephone Company, successor, American Bell Telephone Company]
Generated description
American Bell Telephone Company was a major early U.S. telecommunications firm that consolidated and expanded Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone business into a nationwide system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Bell Telephone Company
Target entity description: American Bell Telephone Company was a major early U.S. telecommunications firm that consolidated and expanded Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone business into a nationwide system.
  • A. Bell Telephone Company chosen
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • B. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • C. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • D. Bell Operating Companies
    The Bell Operating Companies are the regional telephone service providers that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System and historically handled local telephone operations across different parts of the United States.
  • E. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • F. None of above.

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_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_69aea87cbe688190a97a4c11c46f9f54 completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeaa6cb58081909a0897d4cb328063 completed March 9, 2026, 11:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeabb6d43481908899080f6ca58101 completed March 9, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.