Triple

T471291
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Records E8562 entity
Predicate foundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object Columbia Phonograph Company
Columbia Phonograph Company was an early American record label and phonograph company that became one of the pioneering firms in the recorded music industry.
E59484 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: Columbia Phonograph Company | Statement: [Columbia Records, foundedAs, Columbia Phonograph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbia Phonograph Company
Context triple: [Columbia Records, foundedAs, Columbia Phonograph Company]
  • A. Columbia Graphophone Company
    Columbia Graphophone Company was an early 20th-century British record label and gramophone manufacturer that played a key role in the development of the modern recording industry.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Columbia Phonograph Company
Triple: [Columbia Records, foundedAs, Columbia Phonograph Company]
Generated description
Columbia Phonograph Company was an early American record label and phonograph company that became one of the pioneering firms in the recorded music industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbia Phonograph Company
Target entity description: Columbia Phonograph Company was an early American record label and phonograph company that became one of the pioneering firms in the recorded music industry.
  • A. Columbia Graphophone Company
    Columbia Graphophone Company was an early 20th-century British record label and gramophone manufacturer that played a key role in the development of the modern recording industry.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a2e7f3aeb48190a19453e3a043f486 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eff0ca408190958405aec2ec6f53 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a467ff6db08190837d5f0cfa2946e9 completed March 1, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4688a2cbc8190a2110fcd32b63f19 completed March 1, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a468dfc120819098e9f66c8193a20f completed March 1, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.