Triple

T5355507
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sprint Corporation E102679 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object United Telecommunications
United Telecommunications was a major American telecommunications company that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what became Sprint Corporation.
 E514504 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: United Telecommunications | Statement: [Sprint Corporation, predecessor, United Telecommunications]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United Telecommunications
Context triple: [Sprint Corporation, predecessor, United Telecommunications]
  • A. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • B. National Transcommunications Limited
    National Transcommunications Limited was a major UK-based broadcast transmission and telecommunications infrastructure company that operated television and radio transmission networks.
  • C. Telico
    Telico is a small unincorporated community located in Ellis County, Texas.
  • D. Opal Telecom
    Opal Telecom was a UK-based telecommunications provider that became part of TalkTalk’s business services operations following its acquisition.
  • E. T.A.T. Communications Company
    T.A.T. Communications Company was a television production company best known for producing popular American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • 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: United Telecommunications
Triple: [Sprint Corporation, predecessor, United Telecommunications]
Generated description
United Telecommunications was a major American telecommunications company that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what became Sprint Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United Telecommunications
Target entity description: United Telecommunications was a major American telecommunications company that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • A. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • B. National Transcommunications Limited
    National Transcommunications Limited was a major UK-based broadcast transmission and telecommunications infrastructure company that operated television and radio transmission networks.
  • C. Telico
    Telico is a small unincorporated community located in Ellis County, Texas.
  • D. Opal Telecom
    Opal Telecom was a UK-based telecommunications provider that became part of TalkTalk’s business services operations following its acquisition.
  • E. T.A.T. Communications Company
    T.A.T. Communications Company was a television production company best known for producing popular American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • 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.