Triple

T780161
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elihu Thomson E16477 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
 E102913 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: Thomson-Houston Electric Company | Statement: [Elihu Thomson, employer, Thomson-Houston Electric Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Context triple: [Elihu Thomson, employer, Thomson-Houston Electric Company]
  • A. Edison Electric Light Company
    Edison Electric Light Company was Thomas Edison’s pioneering firm responsible for developing and commercializing the first practical incandescent electric lighting systems in the late 19th century.
  • B. Continental Edison Company
    Continental Edison Company was an early electrical engineering firm associated with Thomas Edison that employed pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla during his early career.
  • C. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
  • D. Edison Illuminating Company
    Edison Illuminating Company was one of the earliest electric utility companies in the United States, established by Thomas Edison to generate and distribute electric power for lighting and other uses.
  • E. Edison General Electric Company
    Edison General Electric Company was an early American industrial and electrical manufacturing firm created by inventor Thomas Edison that became a key predecessor to today’s General Electric.
  • 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: Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Triple: [Elihu Thomson, employer, Thomson-Houston Electric Company]
Generated description
Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Target entity description: Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
  • A. Edison Electric Light Company
    Edison Electric Light Company was Thomas Edison’s pioneering firm responsible for developing and commercializing the first practical incandescent electric lighting systems in the late 19th century.
  • B. Continental Edison Company
    Continental Edison Company was an early electrical engineering firm associated with Thomas Edison that employed pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla during his early career.
  • C. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
  • D. Edison Illuminating Company
    Edison Illuminating Company was one of the earliest electric utility companies in the United States, established by Thomas Edison to generate and distribute electric power for lighting and other uses.
  • E. Edison General Electric Company
    Edison General Electric Company was an early American industrial and electrical manufacturing firm created by inventor Thomas Edison that became a key predecessor to today’s General Electric.
  • 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_69a4936ad1fc81908f190208059ccf78 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a750c6708190a3f2c3abf16b4ea4 completed March 1, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b83be4f88190ab5f969f4f52924e completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7b89896bc8190bd98071c7d12a200 completed March 4, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7b8f998ec8190ace2de8d909f1062 completed March 4, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.