Triple
T4890719
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Edwin J. Houston |
E109552
|
entity |
| Predicate | coFounderOf |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomson-Houston Electric Company |
E102913
|
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: Thomson-Houston Electric Company | Statement: [Edwin J. Houston, coFounderOf, Thomson-Houston Electric Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomson-Houston Electric Company Context triple: [Edwin J. Houston, coFounderOf, Thomson-Houston Electric Company]
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A.
Thomson-Houston Electric Company
chosen
Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
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B.
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.
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C.
Continental Edison Company
Continental Edison Company was an early electrical engineering firm associated with Thomas Edison that employed pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla during his early career.
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D.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
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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.
- 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_69bd440f71348190b99938e59fb7f9a1 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6e07ca10819083f80f12374544b1 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be681a3d7881908120dc642af3f58a |
completed | March 21, 2026, 9:42 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:28 p.m.