Triple

T359881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edison cylinder phonograph E7825 entity
Predicate manufacturer P490 FINISHED
Object Edison Phonograph Company
The Edison Phonograph Company was an early American firm founded by Thomas Edison to produce and market his pioneering phonograph sound-recording and playback devices.
E45932 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: Edison Phonograph Company | Statement: [Edison cylinder phonograph, manufacturer, Edison Phonograph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edison Phonograph Company
Context triple: [Edison cylinder phonograph, manufacturer, Edison Phonograph Company]
  • A. Edison Machine Works
    Edison Machine Works was a major manufacturing arm of Thomas Edison's electric power enterprises in the late 19th century, producing electrical equipment such as dynamos and motors.
  • B. Edison Manufacturing Company
    Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
  • C. Edison General Electric Company
    Edison General Electric Company was an early American industrial and electrical manufacturing firm created by inventor Thomas Edison that became a key predecessor to today’s General Electric.
  • D. Edison Electric Light Company
    Edison Electric Light Company was Thomas Edison’s pioneering firm responsible for developing and commercializing the first practical incandescent electric lighting systems in the late 19th century.
  • E. Edison Illuminating Company
    Edison Illuminating Company was one of the earliest electric utility companies in the United States, established by Thomas Edison to generate and distribute electric power for lighting and other uses.
  • 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: Edison Phonograph Company
Triple: [Edison cylinder phonograph, manufacturer, Edison Phonograph Company]
Generated description
The Edison Phonograph Company was an early American firm founded by Thomas Edison to produce and market his pioneering phonograph sound-recording and playback devices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edison Phonograph Company
Target entity description: The Edison Phonograph Company was an early American firm founded by Thomas Edison to produce and market his pioneering phonograph sound-recording and playback devices.
  • A. Edison Machine Works
    Edison Machine Works was a major manufacturing arm of Thomas Edison's electric power enterprises in the late 19th century, producing electrical equipment such as dynamos and motors.
  • B. Edison Manufacturing Company
    Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
  • C. Edison General Electric Company
    Edison General Electric Company was an early American industrial and electrical manufacturing firm created by inventor Thomas Edison that became a key predecessor to today’s General Electric.
  • D. Edison Electric Light Company
    Edison Electric Light Company was Thomas Edison’s pioneering firm responsible for developing and commercializing the first practical incandescent electric lighting systems in the late 19th century.
  • E. Edison Illuminating Company
    Edison Illuminating Company was one of the earliest electric utility companies in the United States, established by Thomas Edison to generate and distribute electric power for lighting and other uses.
  • 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_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_69a3e578c1788190877cf6a346cf10d4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e6098bc48190877f5d26bf1a985b completed March 1, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e741aac48190a3f762154f6e1a36 completed March 1, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.