Triple
T2743
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lee de Forest |
E51
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
|
E186
|
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: De Forest Radio Telephone Company | Statement: [Lee de Forest, founded, De Forest Radio Telephone Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Forest Radio Telephone Company Context triple: [Lee de Forest, founded, De Forest Radio Telephone Company]
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A.
Lee de Forest
Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
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B.
Edwin H. Armstrong
Edwin H. Armstrong was a pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor best known for developing frequency modulation (FM) radio and several fundamental radio technologies.
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C.
Institute of Radio Engineers
The Institute of Radio Engineers was a major professional organization for radio and electronics engineers that later merged into the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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D.
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
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E.
Lincoln Laboratory
Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center operated by MIT that focuses on advanced technology for national security and defense.
- 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: De Forest Radio Telephone Company Triple: [Lee de Forest, founded, De Forest Radio Telephone Company]
Generated description
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Forest Radio Telephone Company Target entity description: De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
-
A.
Lee de Forest
Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
-
B.
Edwin H. Armstrong
Edwin H. Armstrong was a pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor best known for developing frequency modulation (FM) radio and several fundamental radio technologies.
-
C.
Institute of Radio Engineers
The Institute of Radio Engineers was a major professional organization for radio and electronics engineers that later merged into the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
-
D.
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
-
E.
Lincoln Laboratory
Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center operated by MIT that focuses on advanced technology for national security and defense.
- 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_69a22e0d37588190897cf37a323013f5 |
completed | Feb. 27, 2026, 11:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a232e673a881909276dbf9c37bbff6 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a238e23e0881909815d2dad067d7a1 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:37 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a23ab3a1f481908407d4648bbf3f86 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:45 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a23b736e388190956fa92a68d25866 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:48 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:55 p.m.