Triple

T5355506
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sprint Corporation E102679 entity
Predicate origin P410 FINISHED
Object Brown Telephone Company
Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
E514503 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: Brown Telephone Company | Statement: [Sprint Corporation, origin, Brown Telephone Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brown Telephone Company
Context triple: [Sprint Corporation, origin, Brown Telephone Company]
  • A. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • B. Bell Operating Companies
    The Bell Operating Companies are the regional telephone service providers that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System and historically handled local telephone operations across different parts of the United States.
  • C. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • D. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Brown Telephone Company
Triple: [Sprint Corporation, origin, Brown Telephone Company]
Generated description
Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brown Telephone Company
Target entity description: Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • A. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • B. Bell Operating Companies
    The Bell Operating Companies are the regional telephone service providers that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System and historically handled local telephone operations across different parts of the United States.
  • C. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • D. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69bd43d8f7248190b64c140734b5c9a8 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd862dbb008190aef653acddafd38b completed March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf21df856c819099cf9047b87d6db8 completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf22a6e3c081908a18bd370f924d39 completed March 21, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf22fb8db48190b7ce94e5df8ed37f completed March 21, 2026, 11 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.