Triple

T10208529
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bell Aliant (historical) E242266 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Aliant Inc.
Aliant Inc. was a Canadian regional telecommunications company that provided phone, internet, and related services in Atlantic Canada before being succeeded by Bell Aliant.
E849495 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: Aliant Inc. | Statement: [Bell Aliant (historical), predecessor, Aliant Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aliant Inc.
Context triple: [Bell Aliant (historical), predecessor, Aliant Inc.]
  • A. First Allied Corporation
    First Allied Corporation is a private holding company and investment firm associated with the Glazer family, known for its interests in real estate and various business ventures.
  • B. Container Corporation of America
    Container Corporation of America was a pioneering American packaging company renowned for its innovative modernist graphic design and influential corporate identity campaigns in the mid-20th century.
  • C. McLane Company
    McLane Company is a major American supply chain services and wholesale distribution company serving retailers, restaurants, and convenience stores across the United States.
  • D. The Associates & Aldrich Company
    The Associates & Aldrich Company was a film production company best known for producing the psychological thriller "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" and other mid-20th-century motion pictures.
  • E. Borden Group
    The Borden Group is a geologic rock unit of Mississippian age in the eastern United States, known for its thick sequences of marine shales, siltstones, and sandstones.
  • 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: Aliant Inc.
Triple: [Bell Aliant (historical), predecessor, Aliant Inc.]
Generated description
Aliant Inc. was a Canadian regional telecommunications company that provided phone, internet, and related services in Atlantic Canada before being succeeded by Bell Aliant.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aliant Inc.
Target entity description: Aliant Inc. was a Canadian regional telecommunications company that provided phone, internet, and related services in Atlantic Canada before being succeeded by Bell Aliant.
  • A. First Allied Corporation
    First Allied Corporation is a private holding company and investment firm associated with the Glazer family, known for its interests in real estate and various business ventures.
  • B. Container Corporation of America
    Container Corporation of America was a pioneering American packaging company renowned for its innovative modernist graphic design and influential corporate identity campaigns in the mid-20th century.
  • C. McLane Company
    McLane Company is a major American supply chain services and wholesale distribution company serving retailers, restaurants, and convenience stores across the United States.
  • D. The Associates & Aldrich Company
    The Associates & Aldrich Company was a film production company best known for producing the psychological thriller "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" and other mid-20th-century motion pictures.
  • E. Borden Group
    The Borden Group is a geologic rock unit of Mississippian age in the eastern United States, known for its thick sequences of marine shales, siltstones, and sandstones.
  • 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d395fa86cc8190b4f115b5a0f99772 completed April 6, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d652cca9c081909f705365c70db009 completed April 8, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d654ddaed88190bcd7f1a2ee9dd462 completed April 8, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d655338cc08190ba00163f0afa4c3b completed April 8, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 10:59 a.m.