Triple

T4668917
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomson-Houston Electric Company E102913 entity
Predicate mergerWith P77 FINISHED
Object Edison General Electric Company E6505 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: Edison General Electric Company | Statement: [Thomson-Houston Electric Company, mergerWith, Edison General Electric Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edison General Electric Company
Context triple: [Thomson-Houston Electric Company, mergerWith, Edison General Electric Company]
  • A. Edison General Electric Company chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
    Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was a company founded by inventor Thomas Edison that produced a range of early sound recording and playback devices and other electrical innovations.
  • 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_69bd43d9cba4819086c1ab1c2d9d2133 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6340ce548190bd436c59f28227d7 completed March 20, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be038c89f88190aad42cb6974bec2c completed March 21, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.