Triple

T395114
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northern Telecom E8965 entity
Predicate competitor P1375 FINISHED
Object Alcatel
Alcatel is a multinational telecommunications equipment and networking company known for providing infrastructure, mobile, and broadband solutions worldwide.
 E52311 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: Alcatel | Statement: [Northern Telecom, competitor, Alcatel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alcatel
Context triple: [Northern Telecom, competitor, Alcatel]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Motorola
    Motorola is an American telecommunications and semiconductor company best known for pioneering mobile phones and designing influential microprocessors like the 68000 family.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Lucent Technologies
    Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
  • E. Motorola Mobility
    Motorola Mobility is a consumer electronics company best known for designing and manufacturing Android smartphones and smartwatches, including devices running Google's Wear OS platform.
  • 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: Alcatel
Triple: [Northern Telecom, competitor, Alcatel]
Generated description
Alcatel is a multinational telecommunications equipment and networking company known for providing infrastructure, mobile, and broadband solutions worldwide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alcatel
Target entity description: Alcatel is a multinational telecommunications equipment and networking company known for providing infrastructure, mobile, and broadband solutions worldwide.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Motorola
    Motorola is an American telecommunications and semiconductor company best known for pioneering mobile phones and designing influential microprocessors like the 68000 family.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Lucent Technologies
    Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
  • E. Motorola Mobility
    Motorola Mobility is a consumer electronics company best known for designing and manufacturing Android smartphones and smartwatches, including devices running Google's Wear OS platform.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec792dd081909b6b18a854139f8c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a41b4695288190b4a7e67b6a112ca6 completed March 1, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a41ef33c3c81909c8c9ce2964748ee completed March 1, 2026, 11:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4206a7ef8819086cf8c02f098551e completed March 1, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.