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]
  • 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
  • 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.