Triple
T9090091
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | D. E. Hughes |
E217857
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableInvention |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hughes printing telegraph |
E768953
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Hughes printing telegraph | Statement: [D. E. Hughes, notableInvention, Hughes printing telegraph]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hughes printing telegraph Context triple: [D. E. Hughes, notableInvention, Hughes printing telegraph]
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A.
Hughes telegraph system
chosen
The Hughes telegraph system was an early electrical telegraph apparatus that used a printing mechanism to automatically record messages, significantly improving the speed and legibility of telegraphic communication in the 19th century.
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B.
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.
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C.
Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray was a 19th-century American electrical engineer and inventor, best known as a pioneer in telegraphy and early telephone technology.
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D.
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse was an American inventor and painter best known for co-developing the Morse code and contributing to the invention of the single-wire telegraph system.
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E.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf best known for inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca83d8ab5881909d8fddae363b32b1 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc965971f88190acffbf204c11832b |
completed | April 1, 2026, 3:51 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d0478fc0c4819090de2b761804166f |
completed | April 3, 2026, 11:04 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:14 p.m.