Triple

T9028998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject General Telephone & Electronics Corporation E216119 entity
Predicate hadSubsidiary P9212 FINISHED
Object GTE Automatic Electric
GTE Automatic Electric was a major U.S. telecommunications equipment manufacturer known for producing telephone switching systems and related hardware, particularly for independent telephone companies.
 E773490 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: GTE Automatic Electric | Statement: [General Telephone & Electronics Corporation, hadSubsidiary, GTE Automatic Electric]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: GTE Automatic Electric
Context triple: [General Telephone & Electronics Corporation, hadSubsidiary, GTE Automatic Electric]
  • A. Hydra-Matic automatic transmission
    The Hydra-Matic automatic transmission was one of the first mass-produced fully automatic automotive transmissions, developed by General Motors and widely used in mid-20th-century American cars.
  • B. Delco
    Delco is the commonly used nickname for Delaware County, a suburban county located just west of Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania.
  • C. Delco
    Delco was an American automotive electronics and parts manufacturer best known for pioneering electric starting, lighting, and ignition systems for automobiles.
  • D. Meritor
    Meritor is the abbreviated name of Meritor Savings Bank, FSB, a former U.S. financial institution that provided consumer and commercial banking services.
  • E. Eaton
    Eaton is a surname most notably associated with American decathlete and Olympic gold medalist Ashton Eaton.
  • 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: GTE Automatic Electric
Triple: [General Telephone & Electronics Corporation, hadSubsidiary, GTE Automatic Electric]
Generated description
GTE Automatic Electric was a major U.S. telecommunications equipment manufacturer known for producing telephone switching systems and related hardware, particularly for independent telephone companies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: GTE Automatic Electric
Target entity description: GTE Automatic Electric was a major U.S. telecommunications equipment manufacturer known for producing telephone switching systems and related hardware, particularly for independent telephone companies.
  • A. Hydra-Matic automatic transmission
    The Hydra-Matic automatic transmission was one of the first mass-produced fully automatic automotive transmissions, developed by General Motors and widely used in mid-20th-century American cars.
  • B. Delco
    Delco is the commonly used nickname for Delaware County, a suburban county located just west of Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania.
  • C. Delco
    Delco was an American automotive electronics and parts manufacturer best known for pioneering electric starting, lighting, and ignition systems for automobiles.
  • D. Meritor
    Meritor is the abbreviated name of Meritor Savings Bank, FSB, a former U.S. financial institution that provided consumer and commercial banking services.
  • E. Eaton
    Eaton is a surname most notably associated with American decathlete and Olympic gold medalist Ashton Eaton.
  • 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_69ca83a5fa88819088144801b4dd7245 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6a9bcb508190b58751f1772407d4 completed April 1, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdbc289648190834031537c8ce130 completed April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfde57a18c8190b4b8c8d2f521bd2c completed April 3, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdec619d081909fd6b268f4ce06b9 completed April 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.