Triple

T880736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oliver Heaviside E19019 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Great Northern Telegraph Company
The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
E103540 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: Great Northern Telegraph Company | Statement: [Oliver Heaviside, employer, Great Northern Telegraph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Northern Telegraph Company
Context triple: [Oliver Heaviside, employer, Great Northern Telegraph Company]
  • A. Great Northern Railway
    Great Northern Railway was a major American transcontinental railroad that operated in the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest.
  • B. Northern Electric
    Northern Electric was a Canadian telecommunications and electrical equipment manufacturer that later evolved into Northern Telecom (Nortel), a major global telecom company.
  • C. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • D. James Lumsden and Company
    James Lumsden and Company was a 19th-century Scottish firm, associated with Glasgow civic leader and stationer James Lumsden, that played a key role in the early development of what became Clydesdale Bank.
  • E. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to 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: Great Northern Telegraph Company
Triple: [Oliver Heaviside, employer, Great Northern Telegraph Company]
Generated description
The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Northern Telegraph Company
Target entity description: The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
  • A. Great Northern Railway
    Great Northern Railway was a major American transcontinental railroad that operated in the northern United States, connecting the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest.
  • B. Northern Electric
    Northern Electric was a Canadian telecommunications and electrical equipment manufacturer that later evolved into Northern Telecom (Nortel), a major global telecom company.
  • C. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • D. James Lumsden and Company
    James Lumsden and Company was a 19th-century Scottish firm, associated with Glasgow civic leader and stationer James Lumsden, that played a key role in the early development of what became Clydesdale Bank.
  • E. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to 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_69a4939c32488190a7ccd41cf0abb22b completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4accb653c81909fe0753f78145be9 completed March 1, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b85883c481909261bde7fdebcde1 completed March 4, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7b95117e881908efe83c0f8b685fe completed March 4, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7b9a6edd48190a1feff7e887f76ba completed March 4, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.