Triple

T5608145
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ezra Cornell E147284 entity
Predicate founderOf P104 FINISHED
Object Western Union precursor telegraph enterprises E42198 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: Western Union precursor telegraph enterprises | Statement: [Ezra Cornell, founderOf, Western Union precursor telegraph enterprises]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Union precursor telegraph enterprises
Context triple: [Ezra Cornell, founderOf, Western Union precursor telegraph enterprises]
  • A. Pacific Telegraph Company
    The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
  • B. Western Union chosen
    Western Union is a major American financial services and communications company best known for its historic telegraph network and global money transfer services.
  • C. Western Union (early career as telegraph operator)
    Western Union was a dominant 19th-century American telegraph company that employed young Thomas Edison as a telegraph operator early in his career.
  • D. International Telephone & Telegraph
    International Telephone & Telegraph was a major 20th-century American conglomerate best known for its global telecommunications operations and later diversified industrial and technology businesses.
  • E. Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil
    Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil was a historic French electronics and telecommunications company that became a key predecessor to the modern Thales Group.
  • 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_69c0090500f881908374285baf0ac46f completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020fd1b2c81908da154f7e11b90d8 completed March 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c02878aad8819082d2c8f038b79bc7 completed March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:39 p.m.