Triple

T4901284
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scott Adams E109803 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
E478457 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: Pacific Bell | Statement: [Scott Adams, employer, Pacific Bell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Bell
Context triple: [Scott Adams, employer, Pacific Bell]
  • A. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • B. Ameritech
    Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
  • C. Alltel
    Alltel was a major American wireless telecommunications company that provided mobile phone services across numerous U.S. states before being largely acquired by Verizon Wireless.
  • D. AT&T
    AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
  • E. GTE Hawaiian Tel
    GTE Hawaiian Tel was a regional telecommunications company in Hawaii that provided telephone and related communication services as part of GTE’s nationwide operations.
  • 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: Pacific Bell
Triple: [Scott Adams, employer, Pacific Bell]
Generated description
Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Bell
Target entity description: Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
  • A. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • B. Ameritech
    Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
  • C. Alltel
    Alltel was a major American wireless telecommunications company that provided mobile phone services across numerous U.S. states before being largely acquired by Verizon Wireless.
  • D. AT&T
    AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
  • E. GTE Hawaiian Tel
    GTE Hawaiian Tel was a regional telecommunications company in Hawaii that provided telephone and related communication services as part of GTE’s nationwide operations.
  • 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_69bd441180708190ba42ffb44fea533a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6e4dd6bc819094b1cbf533510995 completed March 20, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be6fd2a0348190a285ea1a62e7ae1b completed March 21, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be707405008190ba1456544e8da593 completed March 21, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be70e5537c8190b4db230932818a9c completed March 21, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:28 p.m.