Triple
T3291502
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Elisha Gray |
E69110
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Bell Telephone controversy
The Bell Telephone controversy was a 19th-century legal and historical dispute over the invention of the telephone, centering on competing patent claims and priority between Alexander Graham Bell and rival inventors.
|
E345077
|
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: Bell Telephone controversy | Statement: [Elisha Gray, associatedWith, Bell Telephone controversy]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bell Telephone controversy Context triple: [Elisha Gray, associatedWith, Bell Telephone controversy]
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A.
Bascom Affair
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
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B.
Beecher–Tilton scandal
The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
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C.
Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war
The Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war was a fierce late-19th-century newspaper rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst that helped fuel sensationalist "yellow journalism" in the United States.
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D.
United States v. AT&T
United States v. AT&T was a landmark antitrust lawsuit in which the U.S. government forced the breakup of the Bell System telecommunications monopoly in the early 1980s.
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E.
Thornton Affair
The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
- 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: Bell Telephone controversy Triple: [Elisha Gray, associatedWith, Bell Telephone controversy]
Generated description
The Bell Telephone controversy was a 19th-century legal and historical dispute over the invention of the telephone, centering on competing patent claims and priority between Alexander Graham Bell and rival inventors.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bell Telephone controversy Target entity description: The Bell Telephone controversy was a 19th-century legal and historical dispute over the invention of the telephone, centering on competing patent claims and priority between Alexander Graham Bell and rival inventors.
-
A.
Bascom Affair
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
-
B.
Beecher–Tilton scandal
The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
-
C.
Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war
The Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war was a fierce late-19th-century newspaper rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst that helped fuel sensationalist "yellow journalism" in the United States.
-
D.
United States v. AT&T
United States v. AT&T was a landmark antitrust lawsuit in which the U.S. government forced the breakup of the Bell System telecommunications monopoly in the early 1980s.
-
E.
Thornton Affair
The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
- 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_69ad859d45748190b0742408c954b39f |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb05d0c908190a927d1af78e27de0 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2e8654e8481908f4a8efa219edc54 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:23 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b2ec67e79c8190b29970f856c7e5cf |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:40 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b2ed1b17a88190ac06092ad012bd9b |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:43 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.