Triple

T9029112
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject GTE Florida E216122 entity
Predicate distinguishedFrom P1612 FINISHED
Object Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a major regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across much of the southeastern United States before the breakup of AT&T.
 E777060 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: Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company | Statement: [GTE Florida, distinguishedFrom, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Context triple: [GTE Florida, distinguishedFrom, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • D. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • E. Brown Telephone Company
    Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • 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: Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Triple: [GTE Florida, distinguishedFrom, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company]
Generated description
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a major regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across much of the southeastern United States before the breakup of AT&T.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Target entity description: Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a major regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across much of the southeastern United States before the breakup of AT&T.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • D. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • E. Brown Telephone Company
    Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • 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_69d01773694c8190830f9294c3ec4f54 completed April 3, 2026, 7:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d019059e8481909a696575366aa0b6 completed April 3, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d019a2736c8190880c8f3786cf353b completed April 3, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.