Triple

T579189
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Virgin Media (UK) E15020 entity
Predicate hasPredecessor P97 FINISHED
Object NTL:Telewest
NTL:Telewest was a major UK cable television, internet, and telecommunications provider formed by the merger of NTL and Telewest, which later rebranded as Virgin Media.
E72569 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: NTL:Telewest | Statement: [Virgin Media (UK), hasPredecessor, NTL:Telewest]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NTL:Telewest
Context triple: [Virgin Media (UK), hasPredecessor, NTL:Telewest]
  • A. Northern Telecom
    Northern Telecom was a major Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer and technology company, later known as Nortel Networks, that played a significant role in global telecom infrastructure.
  • B. NMTI
    NMTI is a prestigious United States presidential award that honors individuals, teams, and companies for outstanding contributions to technological innovation and advancement.
  • C. NMTI
    NMTI is an acronym whose specific meaning depends on context, commonly referring to various technical or institutional names.
  • D. GTE
    GTE (General Telephone & Electronics Corporation) was a major U.S. telecommunications company that became one of the largest local telephone service providers before ultimately merging into Verizon.
  • E. Lucent Technologies
    Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
  • 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: NTL:Telewest
Triple: [Virgin Media (UK), hasPredecessor, NTL:Telewest]
Generated description
NTL:Telewest was a major UK cable television, internet, and telecommunications provider formed by the merger of NTL and Telewest, which later rebranded as Virgin Media.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NTL:Telewest
Target entity description: NTL:Telewest was a major UK cable television, internet, and telecommunications provider formed by the merger of NTL and Telewest, which later rebranded as Virgin Media.
  • A. Northern Telecom
    Northern Telecom was a major Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer and technology company, later known as Nortel Networks, that played a significant role in global telecom infrastructure.
  • B. NMTI
    NMTI is a prestigious United States presidential award that honors individuals, teams, and companies for outstanding contributions to technological innovation and advancement.
  • C. NMTI
    NMTI is an acronym whose specific meaning depends on context, commonly referring to various technical or institutional names.
  • D. GTE
    GTE (General Telephone & Electronics Corporation) was a major U.S. telecommunications company that became one of the largest local telephone service providers before ultimately merging into Verizon.
  • E. Lucent Technologies
    Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
  • 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b6c358081908f458b9e3e208c0d completed March 1, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a501c1b8448190847197d984f211c3 completed March 2, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a503b501388190baed19e781c24b4d completed March 2, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5077cf14081909478ea1e0fd3eff5 completed March 2, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.