Triple

T359882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edison cylinder phonograph E7825 entity
Predicate manufacturer P490 FINISHED
Object National Phonograph Company
The National Phonograph Company was an early recording and playback technology firm founded by Thomas Edison in the late 19th century to produce and market his phonograph inventions.
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: National Phonograph Company | Statement: [Edison cylinder phonograph, manufacturer, National Phonograph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Phonograph Company
Context triple: [Edison cylinder phonograph, manufacturer, National Phonograph Company]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
    Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was the early 20th-century American business machines firm that later evolved into IBM, a global leader in computing technology.
  • C. 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.
  • D. De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
    De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: National Phonograph Company
Triple: [Edison cylinder phonograph, manufacturer, National Phonograph Company]
Generated description
The National Phonograph Company was an early recording and playback technology firm founded by Thomas Edison in the late 19th century to produce and market his phonograph inventions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Phonograph Company
Target entity description: The National Phonograph Company was an early recording and playback technology firm founded by Thomas Edison in the late 19th century to produce and market his phonograph inventions.
  • A. Edison Phonograph Company chosen
    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.
  • B. Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
    Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was the early 20th-century American business machines firm that later evolved into IBM, a global leader in computing technology.
  • C. 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.
  • D. De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
    De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a3e86386e08190a21d34fea9faaef0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e922d6f081908cea3427d892c5b7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e983b7cc819089f54a04dd753ccd completed March 1, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.