Triple

T805302
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject AltaVista E17416 entity
Predicate competitor P1375 FINISHED
Object Lycos
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
E96745 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: Lycos | Statement: [AltaVista, competitor, Lycos]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lycos
Context triple: [AltaVista, competitor, Lycos]
  • A. AltaVista
    AltaVista was one of the earliest and most popular web search engines of the 1990s, known for its fast, comprehensive internet search before being eclipsed by later competitors.
  • B. Alexa Internet
    Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
  • C. AOL
    AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • D. Cox Internet
    Cox Internet is a major U.S. broadband and telecommunications service provider offering high-speed internet and related digital services to residential and business customers.
  • E. Goole
    Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
  • 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: Lycos
Triple: [AltaVista, competitor, Lycos]
Generated description
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lycos
Target entity description: Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
  • A. AltaVista
    AltaVista was one of the earliest and most popular web search engines of the 1990s, known for its fast, comprehensive internet search before being eclipsed by later competitors.
  • B. Alexa Internet
    Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
  • C. AOL
    AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • D. Cox Internet
    Cox Internet is a major U.S. broadband and telecommunications service provider offering high-speed internet and related digital services to residential and business customers.
  • E. Goole
    Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
  • 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_69a4937ae8a08190b5084a03d532b30e completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4aabff3d88190bec4299fa0d87df0 completed March 1, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d83cf448190a2205cd777386833 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a77fca11a88190ac74840fc6678cc4 completed March 4, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7805555388190a22fa3000eb2a717 completed March 4, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.