Triple
T2340357
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bell Telephone Company |
E45010
|
entity |
| Predicate | sharesBorderWith |
P224
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Western Union (as major competitor in early years) |
E42198
|
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: Western Union (as major competitor in early years) | Statement: [Bell Telephone Company, sharesBorderWith, Western Union (as major competitor in early years)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Union (as major competitor in early years) Context triple: [Bell Telephone Company, sharesBorderWith, Western Union (as major competitor in early years)]
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A.
Western Union
chosen
Western Union is a major American financial services and communications company best known for its historic telegraph network and global money transfer services.
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B.
International Clearing Union
The International Clearing Union was a proposed post–World War II global financial institution designed by John Maynard Keynes to manage international trade imbalances through a supranational currency and automatic adjustment mechanisms.
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C.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
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D.
Northern Securities Company
Northern Securities Company was a large early 20th-century railroad holding company formed by major financiers including J. P. Morgan, best known for being the target of a landmark antitrust case that led to its dissolution.
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E.
Dean Witter Financial Services Group
Dean Witter Financial Services Group was a major American financial services and brokerage firm that became best known as the predecessor to Discover Financial Services and later part of Morgan Stanley.
- 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_69abc6abf1688190b7c404de0979149a |
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.