Triple
T359879
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Edison cylinder phonograph |
E7825
|
entity |
| Predicate | inventor |
P632
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Alva Edison |
E1785
|
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: Thomas Alva Edison | Statement: [Edison cylinder phonograph, inventor, Thomas Alva Edison]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Alva Edison Context triple: [Edison cylinder phonograph, inventor, Thomas Alva Edison]
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A.
Thomas Alva Edison
chosen
Thomas Alva Edison was a pioneering American inventor and businessman best known for developing the practical incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
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B.
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist best known for pioneering railway air brakes and promoting alternating current (AC) power systems.
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C.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a pioneering Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer best known for his contributions to alternating current (AC) power systems and numerous innovations in electromagnetism.
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D.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf best known for inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
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E.
Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Melville Bell was a 19th-century British-Canadian phonetician and educator best known for his work on visible speech and as the father of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
- 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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ebccb8d88190a31f7c443a0c8566 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3f4d8e8688190a35d50b99b85bb7f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:12 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.