Triple

T7805312
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Wheatstone E180533 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph
The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system developed in the 1830s that used multiple needles pointing to letters on a display, significantly advancing long-distance communication in Britain.
E694374 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: Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph | Statement: [Charles Wheatstone, notableWork, Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph
Context triple: [Charles Wheatstone, notableWork, Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph]
  • A. transcontinental telegraph
    The transcontinental telegraph was the first coast-to-coast telegraph system in the United States, enabling near-instant communication across the country and rendering long-distance mail services like the Pony Express obsolete.
  • B. Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs
    "Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs" is the subject heading for the portion of U.S. federal law that governs wire and radio communication systems and services.
  • C. Charles Wheatstone (historical)
    Charles Wheatstone was a 19th-century English scientist and inventor best known for pioneering work in telegraphy and electrical measurement, including the Wheatstone bridge.
  • D. Alfred Vail
    Alfred Vail was an American inventor and machinist who played a crucial role in developing and improving the electric telegraph and Morse code alongside Samuel Morse.
  • E. Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske
    Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske was the 19th-century telegraph construction workshop founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske that evolved into the core of the modern Siemens industrial conglomerate.
  • 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: Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph
Triple: [Charles Wheatstone, notableWork, Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph]
Generated description
The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system developed in the 1830s that used multiple needles pointing to letters on a display, significantly advancing long-distance communication in Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph
Target entity description: The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system developed in the 1830s that used multiple needles pointing to letters on a display, significantly advancing long-distance communication in Britain.
  • A. transcontinental telegraph
    The transcontinental telegraph was the first coast-to-coast telegraph system in the United States, enabling near-instant communication across the country and rendering long-distance mail services like the Pony Express obsolete.
  • B. Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs
    "Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs" is the subject heading for the portion of U.S. federal law that governs wire and radio communication systems and services.
  • C. Charles Wheatstone (historical)
    Charles Wheatstone was a 19th-century English scientist and inventor best known for pioneering work in telegraphy and electrical measurement, including the Wheatstone bridge.
  • D. Alfred Vail
    Alfred Vail was an American inventor and machinist who played a crucial role in developing and improving the electric telegraph and Morse code alongside Samuel Morse.
  • E. Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske
    Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske was the 19th-century telegraph construction workshop founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske that evolved into the core of the modern Siemens industrial conglomerate.
  • 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_69ca827e50cc8190a92a733577184938 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69caf63838b88190a085756db9ca25c4 completed March 30, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb14439c8081908331caf450462a0e completed March 31, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb1638c9888190be533d55fd0b494f completed March 31, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb1a49beb4819090532acabb9391b1 completed March 31, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:35 p.m.