Triple

T7492284
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pacific Telesis E177032 entity
Predicate notableSubsidiaryBrand P9212 FINISHED
Object PacTel Cellular
PacTel Cellular was a regional wireless telephone service provider in the United States that operated as the mobile communications arm of Pacific Telesis before being spun off and eventually absorbed into larger national carriers.
E669327 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: PacTel Cellular | Statement: [Pacific Telesis, notableSubsidiaryBrand, PacTel Cellular]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PacTel Cellular
Context triple: [Pacific Telesis, notableSubsidiaryBrand, PacTel Cellular]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication 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. McCaw Cellular Communications
    McCaw Cellular Communications was a pioneering U.S. wireless telecommunications company that played a key role in the early development and expansion of the cellular phone industry before being acquired by AT&T.
  • E. Telico
    Telico is a small unincorporated community located in Ellis County, Texas.
  • 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: PacTel Cellular
Triple: [Pacific Telesis, notableSubsidiaryBrand, PacTel Cellular]
Generated description
PacTel Cellular was a regional wireless telephone service provider in the United States that operated as the mobile communications arm of Pacific Telesis before being spun off and eventually absorbed into larger national carriers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PacTel Cellular
Target entity description: PacTel Cellular was a regional wireless telephone service provider in the United States that operated as the mobile communications arm of Pacific Telesis before being spun off and eventually absorbed into larger national carriers.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication 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. McCaw Cellular Communications
    McCaw Cellular Communications was a pioneering U.S. wireless telecommunications company that played a key role in the early development and expansion of the cellular phone industry before being acquired by AT&T.
  • E. Telico
    Telico is a small unincorporated community located in Ellis County, Texas.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: notableSubsidiaryBrand
Context triple: [Pacific Telesis, notableSubsidiaryBrand, PacTel Cellular]
  • A. notableSubsidiary chosen
    Indicates that one entity is a subsidiary of another and is particularly significant or prominent among that parent’s subsidiaries.
  • B. notableBrandElement
    Indicates that one entity is a significant or distinguishing brand-related feature, component, or asset of another entity.
  • C. parentBrand
    Indicates that one brand is the overarching or owning brand from which another brand is derived or subordinated.
  • D. hasUnderlyingCompanyBrand
    Indicates that one entity is associated with or operates under the corporate brand of another company as its underlying brand.
  • E. notableManufacturer
    Indicates that an entity is a well-known or prominent producer or maker of another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c69f2583808190bd1a4936c42a5815 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f81b431481908214b69c6c8d83bc completed March 27, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84600d65481908518bc0d7ffcb373 completed March 28, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8464ec5ec8190be718a1508e8e53b completed March 28, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c846b86a888190bc09bc17a5df252b completed March 28, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6f4d266d88190982cf5d2ee2e9564 completed March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:43 p.m.