Triple

T321422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sony E6422 entity
Predicate formerName P65 FINISHED
Object Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was the original name of the Japanese electronics company that later became globally known as Sony.
 E41406 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: Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo | Statement: [Sony, formerName, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Context triple: [Sony, formerName, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo]
  • A. Carrier Corporation
    Carrier Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration systems.
  • B. NEC Research Institute
    NEC Research Institute was a prominent industrial research center in Princeton, New Jersey, known for advanced work in computer science, machine learning, and related fields.
  • C. Nokia
    Nokia is a Finnish multinational telecommunications and consumer electronics company best known for its historic leadership in mobile phones and its current focus on network infrastructure and 5G technologies.
  • D. Northern Telecom
    Northern Telecom was a major Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer and technology company, later known as Nortel Networks, that played a significant role in global telecom infrastructure.
  • E. Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.
    Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. is a major Japanese corporate group centered on railway, real estate, and entertainment businesses, best known for operating the Hankyu and Hanshin railway lines and related enterprises in the Kansai region.
  • 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: Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Triple: [Sony, formerName, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo]
Generated description
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was the original name of the Japanese electronics company that later became globally known as Sony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Target entity description: Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was the original name of the Japanese electronics company that later became globally known as Sony.
  • A. Carrier Corporation
    Carrier Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration systems.
  • B. NEC Research Institute
    NEC Research Institute was a prominent industrial research center in Princeton, New Jersey, known for advanced work in computer science, machine learning, and related fields.
  • C. Nokia
    Nokia is a Finnish multinational telecommunications and consumer electronics company best known for its historic leadership in mobile phones and its current focus on network infrastructure and 5G technologies.
  • D. Northern Telecom
    Northern Telecom was a major Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer and technology company, later known as Nortel Networks, that played a significant role in global telecom infrastructure.
  • E. Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.
    Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. is a major Japanese corporate group centered on railway, real estate, and entertainment businesses, best known for operating the Hankyu and Hanshin railway lines and related enterprises in the Kansai region.
  • 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_69a2e7933d6c8190bb2592ad13286ef2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea81a1e88190b3496070eb3d85f5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3cb006f348190b2e8901eb2ced9f3 completed March 1, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3cb608d5481908e43e0c0d021f925 completed March 1, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3cc0fb7b48190bf002516d07b6bc5 completed March 1, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.